Arab League asks for Hamas help with Syria violence
Nabil Elaraby, Secretary General of Arab League, asks Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal to deliver message to Syria to “work with integrity, transparency and credibility to halt the violence.”
The head of the Arab League said on Friday he had asked the Damascus-based leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas to ask the Syrian government to work to halt violence in the country.
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby was speaking alongside Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal after a meeting in Cairo.”I gave him a message today to the Syrian authorities that it is necessary to work with integrity, transparency and credibility to halt the violence that is happening in Syria,” he said.
Earlier Friday, a suicide bomber in Syria’s capital Damascus killed 25 people and wounded 46 others, local news station Addounia said.
The bomber blew himself up at a traffic light, according to state television. Footage broadcast by Syria Television also showed the shattered blood splattered windows of what appeared to be a police bus.
At least 44 people were killed last month by what the Syrian authorities said were two suicide bombings against security buildings in the Syrian capital.
Syria has been racked for 10 months by an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in which the United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed. The government says armed “terrorists” have killed 2,000 members of the security forces.