The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stressed that the Israeli practices and illegal measures against the Palestinian people do not only represent a breach of the Charter of the United Nations, the humanitarian law and international legitimacy resolutions, but also undermine the little chances for peace before the international community and abort any initiative or solution, or any international effort for peace. In addition, such violations make all international efforts unable to hold Israel the occupying power responsible for their actions. In a speech before the Security Council meeting last night to discuss the situation in the Middle East including the Palestinian cause, permanent representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Ambassador Khalid Abdalrazaq Al-Nafisee called on the international community, the United Nations and especially the Quartet Committee, to follow a comprehensive strategic approach towards an immediate halt to all settlement projects in the occupied territories which has become one of the biggest obstacles placed by Israel before the efforts to move, push and continue the peace negotiations. Al-Nafisee explained that the suffering of the Palestinian people began with the idea of giving the land of a people to a people without a land. The issue was an issues of a land and then became the issue of refugees, settlements, changing the history and demolition of religious sites in an ongoing series of woes paid by the Palestinian people in the complete absence of the international community to impose the decisions of international legitimacy against the occupier. --More
