The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has condemned the terrorist and aggressive practices as well as the serious violations being practiced by Israel against the international law and its defiance of international legitimacy, without fear of being punished or held accountable, calling on the Security Council to compel Israel to end the war crimes it is committing in addition to its human rights abuses, and holding it responsibility and accountability for this aggression and its repeated crimes against Palestinian people. Kingdom also reiterated to continue to provide full support for the Syrian people and respect all their decisions and support them by all possible means, and its appeal to the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs to carry out its assigned role in facilitating the delivery of humanitarian assistance to those who deserve in the best way and with the utmost transparency in light of the continued deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Syria and the continuing blockade around many cities and regions. This came in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's speech, which was delivered last night during the Security Council's session held on the Middle East, by the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdullah bin Yahya Al-Mualemi. Ambassador Al-Mualemi also said, "We are meeting together again today while Israel continues with its terrorist and aggressive practices and serious violations against international law and its defiance of international legitimacy, and despite the international consensus pertaining to the illegality of Israel's colonial policies and arbitrary practices against the Palestinian people, yet the Security Council has seemingly failed to put an end to Israeli aggression and hold Israel accountable for this aggression and its repeated crimes against the Palestinian people, and thus, Israel continues to use excessive force against the Palestinian people, with the detention of thousands of Palestinian prisoners and using torture and exploitation against them as well as committing many field executions," In the Kingdom's speech, Ambassador Al-Mualemi also explained that with the continuation of all such terrorist acts, Israel claims to be committed to the two-state solution. He inquired of which two countries the occupation force talks while the settlement expansion was going on unabated, in addition to the seizure of land and property, demolition of homes and displacement of families as well as forced eviction and displacement are continuing relentlessly. He also pointed that Israel continues to implement its plans of the annexation of the city of Al-Quds, the distortion of its Arab identity and change the demographic composition and isolating it from its Palestinian surroundings, as well as attempts to the illegal change of Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the attempt of controlling Islamic and Christianity endowments (Waqf) in Al-Quds city. Ambassador Al-Mualemi also said that the government of the Israeli occupation dared to hold a session in the occupied Arab Syrian Golan Heights in a serious development in its kind for the first time. He condemned in the strongest terms all the Israeli statements and acts of aggression, and called on to compel Israel to implement the UN resolutions on withdrawal from all occupied Palestinian territories to the borders of 1967 and from all the occupied Arab Syrian Golan Heights. He emphasized that from this point, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia welcomes the French initiative calling for holding an international peace conference to contribute to strengthening peace and security in the region, according to the terms of reference of the peace process, the Arab peace initiative and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council in order to reach an effective international mechanism to ensure putting an end to the Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine in accordance within a specified time frame. On Syrian affairs, Al-Mualemi said "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its deep concern over the continued suffering of the Syrian people and although the international efforts exerted to put an end to the Syrian crisis, the Security Council resolutions 2254 and 2268 and the announcement of the hostilities cessation and access of humanitarian aid in preparation for the start of formal negotiations on political transition process and the full implementation of the statement of Geneva 1, the violations being committed by Syrian troops are still ongoing on a daily basis and the lives of Syrians are being killed, their bodies mutilated and towns destroyed through the use of indiscriminate weapons such as explosive barrels,' pointing out that the strengthening of the presence of foreign forces of Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria and the terrorist Hezbollah militias and their participating in the criminal operations carried out by the forces of the Syrian regime against the Syrian people is a continued serious escalation will have serious repercussions threatening the security and safety of the region and the entire world. Saudi Ambassador to the United Nations, Al- Mualemi also reiterated the Kingdom's support for the efforts exerted by UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, within its mandate granted to him in accordance with Security Council resolution 2254, which laid down the road map for the official political negotiations on the political transition. He said "We reiterated our continuation to provide our full support for the Syrian people and respect their resolutions and support them with all possible means, calling on all active parties to the immediate cooperation on the application of statement of Geneva (1) including the call on the formation of a transitional ruling body with broad executive powers working to build the future of Syria which can accommodate all of its loyal citizens whatever their intellectual, political, religious, sectarian or ethnic affiliations; Syria, which renounces terrorism, rejects violence and refrains from fanaticism and extremism; Syria, which has no place for whose hands are stained with the blood of the Syrian people."
