CAIRO (AP) — A pan-Arab body called Sunday for the immediate withdrawal of Arab League monitors in Syria, because President Bashar al-Assad’s government has continued to kill opponents, despite the monitors’ presence.

The recommendation of the group, the 88-member Arab Parliament, is nonbinding. The group said that Arabs are angered by the Syrian government’s continuing killings while there are nearly 100 monitors in the country. The monitors are supposed to be ensuring that Syria complies with terms of the Arab League’s plan to end Syria’s bloody nine-month crackdown on dissent — a plan the Syrian government agreed to on Dec. 19.

The head of the Arab Parliament, Ali Salem al-Deqbasi of Kuwait, said the monitors’ presence is distracting from the “flagrant violations” committed by the Assad government.

“The mission of the Arab League team has missed its aim of stopping the killing of children and ensuring the withdrawal of troops from the Syrian streets, giving the Syrian regime a cover to commit inhumane acts under the noses of the Arab League observers,” Mr. Deqbasi said in a statement. Advocates said more than 150 people have been killed since the observers began their mission on Tuesday.