The D-8 group of developing nations has called on all countries to stop supplying arms to Israel and the United States to lift its veto on the full membership of Palestine as an independent and sovereign state in the United Nations. Palestine is currently a non-member observer state, granted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. The group demanded an immediate, permanent, and unconditional ceasefire, cessation of Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the immediate implementation of relevant UN Resolutions. It also called on countries to ensure Israel strictly complied with provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which required the regime to halt its offensive on Gaza and withdraw from the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The group condemned Israel for actions that could cause the war in Gaza to spread to other parts of the region, including "unjustifiable attacks" targeting the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, in April. The United Nations General Assembly recently backed a Palestinian bid to become a full United Nations member.
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