Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the Arab League, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation have all strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a declaration calling for the imposition of so-called “Israeli sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank.
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These states and organizations described the declaration as a blatant and unacceptable violation of international law and a direct breach of relevant UN Security Council resolutions—particularly Resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), and 2334 (2016)—which affirm the illegality of all measures and decisions aimed at legitimizing the occupation, including settlement activities in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
They reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories, emphasizing that this unilateral Israeli move carries no legal weight and cannot alter the legal status of the occupied Palestinian land, especially East Jerusalem, which remains an integral part of that territory. They stressed that such Israeli actions would only fuel growing regional tensions, already heightened by Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip and the resulting humanitarian catastrophe.
The parties called on the international community—including the UN Security Council and all concerned stakeholders—to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and take urgent action to stop Israel’s illegal policies aimed at forcibly imposing a new reality and undermining prospects for a just and lasting peace, as well as the viability of the two-state solution.
They also reaffirmed their commitment to the two-state solution based on international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative, including the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state along the June 4, 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
