ARAB AND WORLD
Tue 04 Feb 2025 6:09 pm - Jerusalem Time
Saudi Arabia confirms its support for consolidating the ceasefire in Gaza
Saudi Arabia confirmed, on Tuesday, its support for efforts to consolidate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and to bring in humanitarian aid.
This came during a cabinet session in the capital, Riyadh, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
The agency said that the Saudi Cabinet discussed regional and global developments and international efforts made in this regard.
He stressed "what was included in the statement issued by the consultative meeting of the Arab Six on Palestine, which was held with the participation of the Kingdom (Saturday in Cairo), of affirmations of support for the efforts made to sustain the ceasefire agreement (in Gaza), and to ensure the arrival of more humanitarian and relief aid, and the safe return of displaced civilians to their lands in the Gaza Strip."
On Saturday, Cairo witnessed the convening of an Arab ministerial meeting, with the participation of the foreign ministers of Egypt Badr Abdel Aati, Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan, the UAE Abdullah bin Zayed, Qatar Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman, and Jordan Ayman Safadi, in addition to the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Hussein Al-Sheikh, according to a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The parties participating in the meeting agreed to "look forward to working with the administration of US President Donald Trump to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, in accordance with the two-state solution," according to the same source.
They also agreed to "reject any infringement of the inalienable rights of the Palestinians, whether through settlement activities, expulsion and demolition of homes, annexation of land, or by evacuating that land of its owners through displacement or encouraging the transfer or uprooting of Palestinians from their land in any way or under any circumstances or justifications."
Since January 25, Trump has suggested more than once to transfer the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip to neighboring countries such as Egypt and Jordan, citing the “lack of habitable places in the Gaza Strip,” which Israel has been destroying for more than 15 months, amid repeated Egyptian and Jordanian rejection.
On January 19, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel came into effect. Its first phase will last for 42 days, during which negotiations will begin to begin a second and then a third phase, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States.
With American support, between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, Israel committed genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 159,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.
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Saudi Arabia confirms its support for consolidating the ceasefire in Gaza