A delegation of Muslim sheikhs led by the former Saudi Minister of Justice and Secretary-General of the New Islamic World League Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa visited on Thursday the former Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz and commemoration of the Holocaust in Poland, in conjunction with an international forum on the Holocaust held in Jerusalem and absent from Polish President Andre Doda .
According to Al-Jazeera correspondent Muhammad Muhsin Wedd, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs praised the participation of Muslim religious leaders and the Saudi delegation in commemorating the Holocaust in Auschwitz, and described the participation as important and historical.
The reporter added that the leader of the "Blue and White" coalition, Benny Gantz, who is competing to form the next Israeli government, expressed the same position.
"The participation of the Islamic and Saudi delegation in the Holocaust memorial in Poland is an important and historic step," Gantz wrote in a tweet.
Gantz said that this participation of the Saudi delegation reflects the important transformations and changes taking place in the Middle East region, and reflects the fundamental and important opportunities that Israel has.
This visit coincided with the convening of the "International Holocaust Remembrance Forum", which was held at the Yad Vashem museum to commemorate the "Holocaust" in occupied Jerusalem, and came under the title "Remembering the Holocaust and Fighting Anti-Semitism".
And participated in the forum activities to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust held in Jerusalem, 40 world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron and Mike Pence, US Vice President and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
In his speech to world leaders, Netanyahu said, "The essence of the establishment of the State of Israel is based on this, no further Holocaust will take place. As prime minister of Israel, this is my most important commitment."
Iran is present
Then Netanyahu attacked Iran, expressing concern over the absence of a united and resolute stand against a regime seeking to develop nuclear weapons to exterminate Israel.
Polish President Andrzej Doda, who built Auschwitz camp in his country from the Nazi German occupiers during World War II, was one of the most prominent absentees from the event.
Doda refused to attend because Poland was not allowed to speak at the conference, unlike the war winners, the United States, Russia, Britain and France, as well as Germany.
Polish leaders were also angered by Putin's comments last month that suggest Poland has a shared responsibility for the war.
Poland, which was first invaded by Nazi Germany and then the Soviet forces, considers itself a major victim of the war in which it lost a fifth of its population.
Poland will commemorate the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum on January 27 as it does every year.