Hawzah News Agency (Occupied Palestine) - Ismail Haniyeh, politburo chief of Hamas movement, called on Tuesday for holding emergency Arab and Islamic summits to confront the Israeli plans of annexing lands in the West Bank.

The office of Haniyeh in Gaza said in an emailed press statement that he addressed letters to 40 Arab and Islamic countries.

"It's necessary to back the Palestinian position which rejected the projects of settlement in the West Bank and the Judaizing of al-Quds (Jerusalem)," said the statement, which quoted Haniyeh as saying.

It added that Haniyeh stressed in the letters that they have to move as urgent as possible "to confront the Israeli annexation policy because it is a real danger to the present and future of Palestine as well as the Arab and Islamic states."

"It is important to ensure a secure political and diplomatic network to defend the Palestinian project and make serious and unified positions that reject and illegalize the annexation plans," said Haniyeh.

He also accused Israel of exploiting its attempts of normalization with some Arab and Islamic states "to implement its plans on the occupied territories of Palestine."