CAIRO
The Arab League will on Monday propose a new resolution, calling for bringing an end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
The league said on Sunday that it would present the resolution to the United Nations Security Council later.
"Just and comprehensive peace is a strategic option," the league wrote in the draft resolution, describing Arab-Israeli peace as an "indivisible" and "comprehensive endeavor."
It added that peace would not be achieved without full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, including the occupied Golan Heights of Syria.
The potential resolution also calls for withdrawal from territories occupied by Israel in southern Lebanon, the Arab League said.
It added that the draft also underlines the need for finding a just solution to the problems of millions of Palestinians who were forced to leave their country and live in other countries.
In 2014, Arab states presented to the United Nations Security Council a draft resolution, calling for setting 2017 as a date for ending Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
The move was, however, met with a U.S. veto.
International law considers the West Bank and East Jerusalem territories occupied by Israel in 1967, deeming the construction of Jewish settlements on these territories "illegal."
Since its establishment 66 years ago, Israel has continued to misappropriate Palestinian land in the West Bank – on which it continues to build Jewish-only settlements – in breach of international law.
Palestinians, for their part, demand the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem – currently occupied by Israel – as its capital.
