The Qatari Emir called on the Palestinian leadership to exert every possible effort to preserve the Arab identity of Al-Quds, and to enforce the national reconciliation and prepare a comprehensive and expanded strategy to the various sectors and projects needed by the city, underlining Qatar's willingness to participate to its full potential in order to accomplish and implement this strategy. He also underlined that the meeting comes to affirm the Arab identity of Al-Quds since the third millennium BC. The Israelis do not realize that "there is no Palestinian State without Al-Quds and there is no Al-Quds without Al-Aqsa Mosque," the Emir said. "What Israeli is doing in Al-Quds is definitely a clear violation of international law and the international humanitarian law and to numerous resolutions of the Security Council and the UN General Assembly concerning the rights of the Palestinian people, therefore, the current status of Al-Quds requires a firm stand to face the blatant Israeli challenge which makes the Arab identity of Al-Quds in big danger, the Emir said. The Emir reaffirmed Qatar's support for the Palestinian people and their steadfastness of Al-Quds and their legitimate demands in establishing the independent state of Palestine. --SPA 13:16 LOCAL TIME 10:16 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/973861