The state reiterated that ‘the Palestinian people have the right to their land’ and cannot be ‘expelled’.
Saudi Arabia has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advice that the state’s land be used to establish a Palestinian state.
In a statement on Sunday, the Saudi Foreign Ministry accused Netanyahu of trying to “divert attention” from Israeli “crimes” in Gaza, including “ethnic cleansing”.
The Foreign Ministry said, “The Kingdom confirms that the Palestinian people have the right to their land, and that they are not entangled or immigrants who seek the desire for brutal Israeli occupation.”
#Statement | Saudi Arabia has praised the condemnation, disapproval and complete rejection of the condemnation by Brother countries, about which Benjamin Netanyahu describes the Palestinian people about their displacement of their land and the values of the kingdom. Yes. pic.twitter.com/ebj2SVHX4W
– Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@kksamofaen) 9 February, 2025
On Thursday, Netanyahu responded to an interviewer on Israeli Channel 14, who, instead of the “Palestinian state,” called the “Saudi state”.
“Saudi Arabia can create a Palestinian state. Netanyahu said he had a lot of land.
The interviewer replied that he was able to find.
The exchange created angry reactions to the Arab states, including Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq, as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
“These dangerous and irresponsible statements confirms the views of Israeli occupation forces in their dishonesty about international and UN laws and sovereignty of states and states,” said GCC Secretary -General Nazi Muhammad al -Bayyavi. Do. “
The Saudi Foreign Ministry thanked the “brotherly countries” for condemning Netanyahu’s remarks.
Talks about the destiny of Palestinians in Gaza already by the United States President Donald Trump to “take power” in the United States and to “take over” Gaza “, to re -settle the Palestinians with this move. The shock was proposed, which is equivalent to ethnic cleansing. In the midst of a critical ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Arab leaders have also condemned it.
Trump has also said that Saudi Arabia will not require the formation of a Palestinian state as a prerequisite for normalizing relations with Israel, Riyadh has repeatedly refused.
At least 61,700 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli war against Gaza, including about 18,000 children, and most of the enclave infrastructure has been destroyed. More than 14,000 people are missing and are considered dead.
The Hamas -led attack on Israel on October 7 gave birth to the war in which 1,139 people were killed and more than 250 kidnappers, of which dozens are still considered in the enclave.
