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Over a dozen Arab, Muslim countries blast annexation vote as ‘blatant’ international law violation
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Saudi Arabia leads a group of over a dozen Arab and Muslim countries in a joint statement blasting the Knesset’s advancement of bills to annex parts of the West Bank.
The countries “condemn in the strongest terms the approval [by the] Israeli Knesset of two draft laws aiming to impose a so called ‘Israeli sovereignty’ over the occupied West Bank, and on Israeli illegal colonial settlements as a blatant violation of international law.”
Signing onto the statement are the “Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Republic of Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Republic of Türkiye, the Republic of Djibouti, the Sultanate of Oman, Republic of The Gambia, the State of Palestine, the State of Qatar, the State of Kuwait, the State of Libya, Malaysia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the League of Arab States, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.”
The countries “reaffirm that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory.”
US President Donald Trump, who likewise opposes Israeli annexation of the West Bank, has recently touted prospects for Saudi-Israeli normalization.
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