DUBAI, November 11. /TASS/. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has called on the countries of the Islamic world to arm the Palestinians to fight Israel if the hostilities in the Gaza Strip does not stop.

"If the war crimes of the Zionist regime (Israel - TASS) continue and the US administration does not stop waging this unequal war, Islamic countries should help the Palestinian people by arming them to fight the occupation," he said at an extraordinary joint summit of the League of Arab States (LAS) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Riyadh.