Foreign ministers from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had planned to visit to discuss the Palestinian state and end the war on Gaza.
Saudi Arabia accused Israel of “extremism and peace rejection” after it was prevented from a planned visit by Arab foreign ministers to the occupied West Bank.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Saud made statements during a joint press conference in the capital of Jordan, Amman, on Sunday with his counterparts from Jordan, Egypt and Bahrain.
Prince Vesal said: “Israel’s rejection of the committee’s visit to the West Bank embodies and confirms its extremism and rejects any serious attempts to (a) a peaceful path … It enhances our will to double our diplomatic efforts within the international community to confront this arrogance.”
His comments followed Israel’s decision Preventing the Arab delegation From reaching Ramallah, where they were appointed to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (United Arab Emirates) planned to visit as part of the efforts made to support Palestinian diplomacy amid Israel’s continuous war on Gaza.
Israel dominates the airspace and the West Bank borders, and on Friday it announced that it would not give permission to visit.
“The Palestinian Authority – which to this day refuses to condemn the massacre of October 7 – aims to host in Ramallah a provocative meeting of foreign ministers from Arab countries to discuss strengthening the establishment of a Palestinian state,” an Israeli official said, adding that Israel “will not cooperate” with the visit.
Prince Faisal’s trip to West Bank He would have represented the first such visit by a senior Saudi official in modern memory.
The Jordanian Foreign Minister, Iman Safadi, said that preventing the trip was another example of how Israel was “killing any opportunity for an ordinary and comprehensive Arab settlement.”
An international conference is scheduled to hold the presidency of France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in New York from 17 to 20 June to discuss the issue of the Palestinian state.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdi said that the conference will cover security arrangements after a The ceasefire in Gaza The reconstruction plans to ensure the Palestinians remain on their land and thwart any Israeli plans to expel them.
Israel has been subjected to increasing pressure from the United Nations and European countries, which prefer to dissolve a state of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict, according to which there is an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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