On Tuesday, Tunisian President Kais Saied renewed his categorical rejection of normalization with Israel, stressing at the same time the right of the Palestinian people to an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

In a speech he delivered during a meeting during which he handed a number of new ambassadors their official credentials, the Tunisian presidency broadcast excerpts from it in a video clip it published this evening on its official Facebook page, that "the term normalization does not exist for me at all."

The Tunisian president added, "Although the Palestinian state has ambassadors, do not forget the legitimate Palestinian right and that the Palestinian issue is the central issue for the whole nation. To those who talk about normalization, I say that this term does not exist for me at all."

And he added, "The natural thing is for Palestine to return to the Palestinian people, who must regain their rights in all of Palestine, which must be an independent state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital."