Arab League to Meet Over Israel-Palestinian Flare-up

The Arab League will hold emergency talks on Sunday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip after a series of Israeli air strikes on the enclave, the deputy leader of the group said.

"The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday, at the request of Palestine, to examine the repercussions of the dangerous situation following Israel's continuous aggression on Gaza," Ahmed Ben Helli told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

He said the meeting will be attended by the permanent delegates of the 22-member pan-Arab organization which has its headquarters in Cairo.

Fourteen people were killed Thursday and Friday in Israeli air strikes on Gaza which began hours after an attack blamed by Israel on a radical Palestinian group that killed eight Israelis around the city of Eilat.

Gaza-based militants have meanwhile fired some 30 rockets on Israel causing casualties.

Israel and the Palestinians battled each other for a third day on Saturday with rockets fired from Gaza wounding three in southern Israel while Israeli planes attacked the coastal enclave.