Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry has issued a statement expressing “strong condemnation and denunciation” of attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.
The statement highlighted the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and an assault on the Hajjah Hamidah Mosque in the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris, near Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank.
On Thursday, Israeli settlers torched and spray-painted the mosque with racist graffiti, the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs reported in a statement, condemning it as a “heinous crime and a blatant assault on the feelings of Muslims.”
“The Kingdom affirms that the continuation of these assaults without deterrence undermines the international and regional efforts aimed at achieving peace, and leads to increasing tensions and perpetuation of the cycle of conflict,” read the statement.
The statement went on to say: “The Kingdom also warns that the international community’s silence regarding these practices, and the absence of accountability mechanisms amid ongoing Israeli violations and assaults, weakens the foundations of the international order and undermines the principles of international legitimacy. The Kingdom reiterates its firm position in supporting the Palestinian people and in continuing its efforts toward establishing an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and relevant international resolutions.”
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