The Sultan of the Authority of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq, affirmed his country’s solidarity with the Palestinian people, and supported all efforts calling for stopping the escalation and attacks on children and innocent civilians, and releasing prisoners in accordance with the principles of international humanitarian law.

The Sultan also stressed, according to the Omani News Agency, the need for the international community to fulfill its responsibilities to protect civilians, ensure their humanitarian needs, lift the illegal siege on Gaza and the rest of the Palestinian territories, and resume the peace process to enable the Palestinian people to regain all their legitimate rights by establishing their independent state on the 1967 borders with its capital. East Jerusalem in accordance with the principle of the two-state solution, the Arab Peace Initiative, and all relevant UN resolutions.