Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, in a telephone conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's intention to annex lands from the occupied West Bank. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned about Netanyahu's announcement, which was punished by the administration of Facebook for banning him from emailing the network for 24 hours after the publication of an inflammatory post against Arab citizens.
In detail, King Salman bin Abdulaziz confirmed the kingdom's condemnation and categorical rejection of Netanyahu's announcement of his intention to annex land from the West Bank occupied in 1967, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
He explained that this declaration "is a very dangerous escalation against the Palestinian people, and a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international norms, and that the Israeli attempt to impose a fait accompli policy will not obscure the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people."
For his part, Abbas valued the keenness and concern of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Kabir on the Palestinian cause and the Saudi's permanent, firm and firm stances towards Palestine and its people in various regional and international summits and forums.
Abbas praised the Kingdom's call to hold an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the level of foreign ministers to discuss this issue and review the attitudes towards Israel, in order to face this declaration and address it, take the necessary measures, and develop an urgent action plan towards it and address it, praising the statement issued by the Kingdom and its position Who put dots on the letters.
In New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed grave concern over Netanyahu's statement that he intends to annex West Bank land if he wins the election.
Guterres, in a statement last night by his spokesman Stephane Dujarric, considered these Israeli steps, if implemented, as a serious violation of international law, and would destroy efforts to revive negotiations and regional peace, and would seriously undermine the two-state solution.
In Amman, Jordan called on the Security Council and the international community to act against Netanyahu's announcement of his intention to annex the Jordan Valley once he was re-elected.
Jordan stressed in a statement to the Foreign Ministry yesterday, the need to take a clear and explicit position to condemn the Israeli declaration, and rejected this flagrant violation of international laws and resolutions of international legitimacy, as a serious escalation undermines the foundations of the peace process, and push the entire region towards violence and fuel the conflict.
The statement said that Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi placed the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council accredited to Amman in the form of the disastrous repercussions of the Israeli declaration on efforts to achieve lasting peace in the region, stressing the importance of the international community to act effectively and quickly against Netanyahu's declaration.
Safadi said that if implemented, the declaration would undermine the two-state solution, which is the only way to resolve the conflict and end the peace process, which will create an environment of despair that will spark anger and violence that threaten peace and security in the entire region.
He urged the permanent members of the Security Council to take the necessary steps to prevent the implementation of the Declaration and to confront unilateral illegal actions by Israel in order to protect international law and the right of all peoples in the region to live in peace and security.
On the other hand, Netanyahu threatened yesterday a war in Gaza and then went to Russia to discuss with President Vladimir Putin the freedom of Israel to work in Syria as the frantic election race comes to an end.
Before Netanyahu began his trip to the Black Sea resort of Sochi to meet Putin, Moscow condemned the plan announced by Netanyahu to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank after the elections in Israel on Tuesday, where the Russian Foreign Ministry announced its opposition to Netanyahu's plan to annex the Jordan Valley. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had followed the Arab reaction to Netanyahu's plan to annex the Jordan Valley to Israeli sovereignty. She added that the annexation of the Jordan Valley "could lead to a significant escalation of tensions in the region, and undermine the hopes for a long-awaited peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors."
The ministry affirmed Russia's firm position on the need for a comprehensive political settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based on a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.
In an interview with Cannes radio in Israel, Netanyahu received questions about continued rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. His opponents have accused him, in opinion polls as a tough election race, of failing to make enough effort to end attacks on southern Israel.
"Most likely, we will have, and there will be no choice, to enter a campaign, a war, in Gaza," Netanyahu said.
Referring to the Russian army in Syria and Israeli forces attacking Iranian-linked targets there, Netanyahu said: "I think the Israeli citizens know that without my prayers and meetings every three months (with Putin) we would have clashed a lot."
"The Russian army, the Israeli army and our air force are at contact distances," he said in the radio interview. "The biggest problem is success in maintaining our freedom to operate in such a busy area."
This comes at a time when the management of the social networking site «Facebook» Netanyahu, by banning him from e-mail over the network for 24 hours after the publication of an inflammatory post against Arab citizens.
"The Arabs want to exterminate us all, children, women and men," read the post published on Netanyahu's account yesterday.
Netanyahu's Likud party shied away from the post that promoted the vote rather than the rival Blue White party, claiming it was published by an unauthorized technician without the approval of the prime minister himself and removed from the site.
"The action was taken after it was determined that the content violates his hate speech policy," Facebook said, warning that "further violations will be addressed through appropriate additional action."