Al Jazeera
Palestine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has pushed back on Israel’s “expansionist plans” in response to comments from Israel’s top diplomat, Gideon Saar.
“The Palestinian people remain on their land, and those who must leave are the racist settler invaders”, the ministry wrote on X. “The time has come for the world to reject a rogue state that violates international law and practices ethnic cleansing daily, and to stand up and confront gangs of terrorist settlers who believe they can erase the Palestinian reality and impose their expansionist plans on the Palestinian people.”
Palestine is “not for sale, and Israel will not succeed,” the ministry added.
The statement came after Saar’s explosive speech yesterday at a United Nations Security Council meeting, in which he rejected criticism of Israel’s plans to effectively annex the occupied West Bank and claimed that “No other nation … has a stronger right than our historical and documented right to the land of the Bible”.
“The Palestinian people remain on their land, and those who must leave are the racist settler invaders”, the ministry wrote on X. “The time has come for the world to reject a rogue state that violates international law and practices ethnic cleansing daily, and to stand up and confront gangs of terrorist settlers who believe they can erase the Palestinian reality and impose their expansionist plans on the Palestinian people.”
Palestine is “not for sale, and Israel will not succeed,” the ministry added.
The statement came after Saar’s explosive speech yesterday at a United Nations Security Council meeting, in which he rejected criticism of Israel’s plans to effectively annex the occupied West Bank and claimed that “No other nation … has a stronger right than our historical and documented right to the land of the Bible”.
