Saudi Arabia in a strongly worded statement: Palestinians have rights and are not intruders or immigrants who can be expelled whenever the occupation wants

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has renewed its categorical rejection of the Israeli statements regarding the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, stressing that the Palestinian people have a right to their land and are not intruders or immigrants who can be expelled whenever the occupation wants.

In a statement issued by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, Sunday, the Kingdom appreciated the condemnation, denunciation and complete rejection announced by sister countries regarding what Benjamin Netanyahu stated regarding the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land, explaining that these positions confirm the centrality of the Palestinian cause to Arab and Islamic countries.

The Kingdom affirmed its "categorical rejection of such statements that aim to divert attention from the successive crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against our Palestinian brothers in Gaza, including the ethnic cleansing they are being subjected to."

The statement explained that "this extremist occupying mentality does not comprehend what the Palestinian land means to the brotherly Palestinian people and their emotional, historical and legal connection to this land, and does not consider that the Palestinian people deserve life in the first place; it has completely destroyed the Gaza Strip, and killed and injured more than (160) thousand, most of whom are children and women, without the slightest human feeling or moral responsibility."

He pointed out that "the owners of these extremist ideas are the ones who prevented Israel from accepting peace, by rejecting peaceful coexistence, rejecting peace initiatives adopted by Arab countries, and practicing systematic injustice towards the Palestinian people for more than (75) years, disregarding right, justice, law and the values established in the United Nations Charter, including the right of man to live in dignity on his land."

The statement stressed that "the brotherly Palestinian people have a right to their land, and are not intruders or immigrants who can be expelled whenever the brutal Israeli occupation wants."

At the end of its statement, the Kingdom stressed that "the right of the brotherly Palestinian people will remain steadfast, and no one will be able to take it away from them no matter how long it takes, and that lasting peace will only be achieved by returning to the logic of reason and accepting the principle of peaceful coexistence through the two-state solution."