Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and says that Saudi Arabia would “certainly” be in interested in a normalization deal with Israel that is linked to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
“Peace and security for Israel is intimately linked with peace and security,” says Bin Farhan in Davos at the World Economic Forum. “We are fully onboard with that.”
He says that Riyadh agrees that “regional peace means peace for Israel,” but “that can only happen with a Palestinian state.”
“What Israel is doing now is putting the prospects for regional peace and security at risk,” says the foreign minister.
There must be a ceasefire on all sides, he says, which “should be a starting point for peace” in the region.
He also says attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea are connected to the war in Gaza.
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