Iranian President calls on Arab, Muslim countries to 'boycott all products of the Zionist entity'.

Israel's indiscriminate offensive against Gaza was condemned at a summit in Qatar on Friday, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for the prosecution of Israeli leaders by an international court.

Also at the summit, Qatar and Mauritania decided to suspended their relations with Israel, a Mauritanian diplomat said.

The move followed appeals by both Ahmadinejad and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad that Arab states sever any ties they had with Israel.

Mauritania has diplomatic ties to Israel, while Qatar is the only Gulf Arab country with commercial relations with the Jewish state.

Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab countries which have signed peace treaties with Israel and which have Israeli embassies.

Ahmadinejad called for the prosecution of Israeli leaders by the International Court of Justice for "crimes" against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

He urged "punishing the criminal leaders of the Zionist entity," for the 21-day-old Israeli offensive on Gaza, which so far has killed more than 1,100 Palestinians (a third of whom are children) and wounded another 5,000.

The Iranian leader called on Arab and Muslim countries to "boycott all products of the Zionist entity" and on countries with ties to Israel "to cut them.

"This is the minimum for the solidarity with the Palestinian people and the resistance in Gaza," he said, in an address in Farsi was translated into Arabic at the summit.

The Doha summit is being attended by 13 of the Arab League's 22 members.

Ahmadinejad's comments echoed requests by Assad, who called for "cutting all direct and indirect ties with Israel, and shutting down its embassies."

"Resistance has become the only path to peace, which comes through returning rights from an enemy that only understands the language of force," Assad said.

Source: Middle-East-Online

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