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AU Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat, who had been instrumental in securing Israel's observer status in 2021, has changed course.

“Gaza is being completely annihilated and its people are deprived of all of their rights,” he told the summit yesterday. "I condemn Israel's war on Gaza, which is unparalleled in the history of humanity.”

He went on to call for an independent Palestinian state. These opening remarks set the tone for a flood of similar remarks by permanent and observer members of the AU.