Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby has called for a special criminal court to be set up for Israel.
Israel was acting like "a country that is above the law and accountability", Elaraby claimed at the start of the meeting of Arab states in Cairo. He demanded "a special criminal court for the Palestinian cause" to be installed to try Israel, similar to the one in The Hague trying war crimes during the Yugoslav civil war of the 1990s.
Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Cairo, Ahmed Qattan, accused Israel of trying to profit from the conflict in Syria. "The Zionist entity is exploiting the years of crisis in Syria," he alleged.
Delegates to the 22-member bloc of Arab countries, which is based in Cairo, are expected to pass a resolution denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge on Sunday that Golan Heights would remain Israeli "forever" and not be returned to Syria.
Israel captured the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six Day East after being attacked by Syria, Egypt and Jordan. The territory was annexed in 1981.
