Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan al Saud said that Arab and Muslim countries warned US President Donald Trump about the serious consequences of any Israeli attachment of the West Bank.
Al Saud said this is a message that the US president “understands very well.”
The American leader met with Saudi Arabia leaders and authorities, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan on Tuesday (23) to discuss the war of almost two years in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militants of Hamas.
The meeting took place on the UN, on the sidelines of the annual.
“Arab and Muslim countries have made the president very clear the danger of any kind of attachment in the West Bank and the risk that it represents, not only for the potential of peace in Gaza, but also for any sustainable peace,” said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Farhan Al-Saud, reporters in the United Nations on Thursday.
“And I am confident that President Trump understood the position of the Arab and Muslim countries, and I think the US president understands the risks and dangers of attachment in the West Bank,” he added.
Earlier, Trump said at a news conference that, rejecting the appeals of far-right politicians in Israel who want to extend sovereignty over the area.
“I will not allow Israel to attach the West Bank. I will not allow that. This will not happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Hall.
The Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he will propose to the office to apply sovereignty to Israel’s occupied Worm, an action that represents the actual annexation of lands taken in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
