Saudi Arabia condemns Israel’s seizure of West Bank land, warns of regional instability
Saudi Arabia has strongly condemned Israel's recent decision to seize more land from Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, emphasizing that the move would plunge the region into instability.
In a statement released on Monday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that the move would "undermine efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region."
The Ministry emphasized that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemns "the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to rename the West Bank as 'State Lands,' affiliated with the occupation authorities, as part of plans aimed at imposing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank."
It reiterated that “Israel holds no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories," and such measures are a “serious violation of international law" that undermines the "two-state solution."
Other regional countries, including Qatar, Egypt, and Jordan, have also described the move as illegal under international law and a threat to the "two-state solution."
Israel recently approved a series of sweeping measures in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians say constitute a blatant breach of the Oslo Accords and amount to a de facto annexation of Palestinian land.
The policy, announced by Israel's extremist finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and minister of military affairs Israel Katz, significantly alters governance in the West Bank, opening the way for expanded settlements, land seizures and the erosion of Palestinian civil rights.
The measures lift longstanding legal restrictions on Israeli settlers, accelerate settlement expansion, and extend Israeli military and “civil” authority into areas that were previously under partial Palestinian control.
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