Prince Faisal bin Farhan will become the first Saudi foreign minister to visit the West Bank on Sunday, a diplomatic source tells AFP, as the Gaza war drags on and Riyadh pushes for Palestinian statehood.
The top Saudi diplomat will head a delegation to Ramallah, a Palestinian embassy source says, the first such trip since Israel captured the territory from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War.
Prince Faisal’s trip was announced as Israel vowed to build a “Jewish Israeli state” in the West Bank, after doubling down on plans to expand settlements there.
“A ministerial delegation led by the minister of foreign affairs will go to Ramallah on Sunday,” the source tells AFP.
Saudi Arabia sent a lower-level delegation to Ramallah in September 2023, its first since 1967, not long before Hamas’s October 7 attack triggered the Gaza war.
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