Arab League leaders head to Bahrain for Gaza-focused summit

Arab League leaders are meeting in Bahrain on Tuesday for a summit focusing on Israel's war on Gaza.

This marks for the first time the bloc is meeting since the extraordinary summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in November, which also involved the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

At that meeting, members condemned Israel's "barbaric" actions in Gaza but did not approve of any punitive economic and political steps against Israel.

The AFP reports that this could change at today's meeting.