The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia appreciated the condemnation, denunciation and complete rejection announced by sister countries regarding Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement regarding the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land. It also appreciated the positions that affirm the centrality of the Palestinian cause to Arab and Islamic countries.

Saudi Arabia affirmed in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, Sunday, its absolute rejection of such statements that aim to divert attention from the successive crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians in Gaza, including the ethnic cleansing they are being subjected to.

The Kingdom said that this extremist occupying mentality does not understand what the Palestinian land means to the Palestinian people and their emotional, historical and legal connection to this land, and does not consider that the Palestinian people deserve life in the first place; it has completely destroyed the Gaza Strip, and killed and injured more than (160) thousand, most of whom were children and women, without the slightest human feeling or moral responsibility.

Saudi Arabia stressed that the Palestinian people have a right to their land, and are not intruders or immigrants who can be expelled whenever the brutal Israeli occupation wants.

She pointed out that the owners of these extremist ideas are the ones who prevented Israel from accepting peace, by rejecting peaceful coexistence, rejecting peace initiatives adopted by Arab countries, and practicing systematic injustice towards the Palestinian people for more than (75) years, disregarding the right, justice, law and values established in the United Nations Charter, including the right of man to live in dignity on his land.

The Kingdom stressed that the rights of the Palestinian people will remain steadfast, and no one will be able to take them away from them no matter how long it takes, and that lasting peace will only be achieved by returning to the logic of reason and accepting the principle of peaceful coexistence through the two-state solution.