Egypt Daily News – Egypt condemned, in the strongest terms, the extremist statements of Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli Minister of Finance, calling for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty and settlement expansion in the West Bank, in flagrant violation of international law, international humanitarian law and all relevant Security Council resolutions, in addition to the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on… The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Egypt affirmed that these irresponsible and extremist statements from a member of the Israeli government clearly reflect the Israeli tendency to refuse to adopt the peace option in the region, the absence of an Israeli partner capable of making courageous decisions to bring about peace, and the presence of an insistence on adopting a policy of arrogance, which is the same policy that brought the region into the current cycle of conflict. .
These extremist statements are in stark contrast to the position of the international community calling for an end to the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Egypt stressed its rejection of these reprehensible statements that fuel extremism and violence, stressing the international responsibility to protect the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, most importantly their right to self-determination, which is the only practical solution to end the conflict in the region and break out of the cycle of violence and destruction, warning against continuing the approach of escalation and extremism aimed at prolonging, inflaming and expanding the conflict.
