Doha: Arab condemnations continued in response to Israeli Prime Minister's statements on the so-called Greater Israel vision, along with Israeli Finance Minister's approval of 3,400 settlement units around the occupied city of Jerusalem. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement on Thursday, expressed the country's strongest condemnation of Israeli occupation government's statements about annexing parts of Arab countries, rejecting such provocative expansionist calls that contravene the rules and principles of international law and UN Charter, and stressing the need to respect the sovereignty of Arab states.
According to Qatar News Agency, the ministry stated that while Kuwait denounces such remarks - which expose the occupying entity's intentions and reflect its plans to undermine the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people - it calls on the international community to exert all possible pressure to confront these statements and to warn of their grave consequences, which infringe upon the sovereignty, rights, and will of nations, and to do so in order to preserve the security and stability of the region.
Similarly, the Sultanate of Oman strongly condemned the Israeli Prime Minister's remarks, voicing its absolute rejection of his illegal expansionist schemes that flagrantly violate international law and encroach upon the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to establish an independent state on their own land in West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem as its capital. In its statement on Thursday, the Omani Foreign Ministry affirmed that such expansionist propositions constitute a direct threat to the region's security and stability, fueling hostility and tension at a time when there is an urgent need for calm, cooperation among regional states, and respect for the principles of national sovereignty and good neighborliness.
For its part, Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday condemned the remarks as a blatant provocation to the sovereignty of states. In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry expressed Iraq's strongest condemnation of such remarks, which clearly reveal the expansionist ambitions of this entity and confirm its intent to destabilize security and stability in the region.
Meanwhile, Egypt strongly condemned Israeli Finance Minister's approval of 3,400 settlement units around the occupied city of Jerusalem, considering it a new step that reflects the Israeli government's determination to expand its seizure of Palestinian land and alter the demographic reality in the territories it occupies, in flagrant breach and violation of international law, relevant UN Security Council resolutions, and international conventions. In its statement on Thursday, Egypt's Foreign Ministry denounced the extremist remarks made by the Israeli minister, calling for imposition of Israeli sovereignty and further settlement expansion in the West Bank, noting that this represents a fresh indication of Israeli arrogance and deviation - policies that will not bring security or stability to the region, including Israel itself, so long as it fails to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people.
The ministry further stressed Egypt's categorical rejection of such settlement policies and reprehensible statements from Israeli government officials, which stoke hatred, extremism, and violence. It renewed Egypt's warning to Israel against pursuing delusional beliefs about liquidating the Palestinian cause and realizing the so-called Greater Israel - something that cannot be accepted or permitted to happen.