Algeria denounced this Friday evening the statements of the Israeli Prime Minister on the Greater Israel project. This reaction from Algeria came in a joint declaration with 30 Arab and Islamic countries.
Among the signatory countries of this declaration are, in addition to Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Gambia, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
This joint declaration was also signed by the secretaries-general of three important regional and international organizations: the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
According to the text released on Friday evening, the signatories emphasize that the statements of the Prime Minister of the Zionist entity “constitute a flagrant and dangerous violation of the rules of international law and the foundations of stable international relations. They constitute a direct threat to Arab national security, the sovereignty of states, as well as regional and international security and peace.”
The 31 countries thus condemn with the “greatest firmness” these statements made last Tuesday on the Israeli channel i24News by Benjamin Netanyahu on the Greater Israel project. The Israeli Prime Minister said he felt invested with a “historical and spiritual mission” and was “very” attached to the vision of a Greater Israel, which includes the occupied West Bank, Gaza, part of Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, as well as territories of Syria and Lebanon.
The signatory countries of the declaration reaffirm their “respect for international legitimacy and the UN Charter, in particular its Article 2, paragraph 4, relating to the rejection of the use or threat of force. They add that they “will adopt all policies and measures to frame and consolidate peace, in order to serve the interests of all States and all peoples in terms of security, stability and development, far from the illusion of control and the imposition of force.”
In addition, the 31 signatory countries also condemn with the “greatest firmness” the approval by the extremist Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the “colonization” plan and his racist and extremist statements rejecting the creation of a Palestinian State.
Finally, the foreign ministers of these 31 Arab and Islamic countries accuse Israel of “crimes of aggression, genocide and ethnic cleansing.” They call for a ceasefire in Gaza, and “the opening of unconditional access to humanitarian aid in order to put an end to the policy of systematic starvation used by Israel as a weapon of genocide.”
In the wake of this, they reiterate their “total” and “absolute” rejection of the displacement of the Palestinian people “in any form and under any pretext whatsoever.” They call on the international community, including the United States, to pressure Israel to stop its aggression and withdraw completely from Gaza.