GENEVA — Saudi Arabia condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to convert the occupied West Bank land to what they call “state property” under the control of the occupation authorities. “This is part of a scheme aimed at imposing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank, which undermines efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region,” said Ambassador Abdulmohsen bin Khothaila, Saudi Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva on Thursday. He made the remarks while attending an interactive dialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories during the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council. Bin Khothaila strongly denounced the Israeli occupation forces’ demolition of buildings belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), holding the international community accountable for confronting these practices and the Israeli approach of continuing its violations and crimes against international relief organizations. He reiterated Saudi Arabia’s absolute rejection of these illegal measures, saying that “this constitute a grave violation of international law, undermine the two-state solution, and represent an attack on the inherent right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent and sovereign state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”GENEVA — Saudi Arabia condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to convert the occupied West Bank land to what they call “state property” under the control of the occupation authorities. “This is part of a scheme aimed at imposing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank, which undermines efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region,” said Ambassador Abdulmohsen bin Khothaila, Saudi Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva on Thursday. He made the remarks while attending an interactive dialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories during the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council. Bin Khothaila strongly denounced the Israeli occupation forces’ demolition of buildings belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), holding the international community accountable for confronting these practices and the Israeli approach of continuing its violations and crimes against international relief organizations. He reiterated Saudi Arabia’s absolute rejection of these illegal measures, saying that “this constitute a grave violation of international law, undermine the two-state solution, and represent an attack on the inherent right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent and sovereign state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
At UNHRC, Saudi Arabia slams Israeli move to turn West Bank land into “state property”
