RIYADH — The overseas ministers of Saudi Arabia and 7 different Arab and Islamic international locations have reiterated their categorical rejection of all unilateral measures geared toward altering the authorized, demographic, and historic standing of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They pressured that such insurance policies represent a harmful escalation that can additional heighten tensions and instability within the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the area as a complete.
In a joint assertion, the overseas ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, and Türkiye strongly condemned the choice issued by Israel to designate lands within the occupied West Financial institution as so-called “state land” and approve procedures for the registration and settlement of land possession throughout in depth areas of the occupied West Financial institution for the primary time since 1967.
This unlawful step, they mentioned, constitutes a grave escalation geared toward accelerating unlawful settlement exercise, land confiscation, entrenching Israeli management, and making use of illegal Israeli sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territory and undermining the reliable rights of the Palestinian folks.
The overseas ministers additionally affirmed that these measures signify a flagrant violation of worldwide regulation and worldwide humanitarian regulation, significantly the Fourth Geneva Conference, in addition to a violation of related United Nations Safety Council resolutions, foremost amongst them Decision 2334.
They acknowledged that the choice additionally contradicts the advisory opinion issued by the Worldwide Court docket of Justice regarding the authorized penalties arising from Israeli insurance policies and practices within the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which underscored the illegality of measures supposed to change the authorized, historic, and demographic standing of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the duty to finish the occupation, and the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by drive.
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This step, they affirmed, displays an try and impose a brand new authorized and administrative actuality designed to consolidate management over the occupied land, thereby undermining the two-state resolution, eroding the prospects for the institution of an unbiased and viable Palestinian State, and jeopardizing the attainment of a simply and complete peace within the area.
The overseas ministers reiterated their categorical rejection of all unilateral measures geared toward altering the authorized, demographic, and historic standing of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They pressured that such insurance policies represent a harmful escalation that can additional heighten tensions and instability within the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the area as a complete.
They known as upon the worldwide neighborhood to imagine its obligations and take clear and decisive steps to halt these violations, guarantee respect for worldwide regulation, and safeguard the inalienable rights of the Palestinian folks, foremost amongst them their proper to self-determination, ending the occupation, and establishing their unbiased and sovereign State on the strains of 4 June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
