The conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas is pushing the whole region
"in the wrong direction,"
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal ben Farhan said Tuesday, urging pressure on
"all parties"
to stop the violence.
The conflict
"is pushing us in the wrong direction, we are making the path to lasting peace more difficult,"
the minister said in an interview with AFP in Paris, as the conflict continues and the community International is stepping up its diplomatic efforts.
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The conflict
"strengthens the extremists, the most intolerant avenues in the region,"
added the prince, present in Paris to participate in two summits organized in France, on Sudan and on Africa.
"We must all work together to encourage all parties to engage seriously, first of all for de-escalation, an end to the violence, and then to engage in serious peace talks towards a final settlement of the conflict which must understand a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, ”
he said.
"It is very important that we all work together to end this cycle of violence"
and the
"Kingdom is working very closely with its partners in the Arab world, the Muslim world, and the international community to put pressure together on all of them. the parties to end the conflict ”.
Since the start of a new round of armed violence between the Jewish state and groups in Gaza on May 10, at least 230 people, the vast majority Palestinians, have been killed. France, Germany, Jordan, Egypt and other countries are stepping up diplomatic initiatives to try to stop the spiral.
The UN Security Council is due to meet for a fourth time urgently on Tuesday, while the United States still refuses the adoption of a declaration calling for
"an end to the violence".
US President Joe Biden first expressed his support for a
"ceasefire"
in a new telephone interview Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Affirming that Arabia's priority is
"lasting peace,"
Faisal ben Farhan said that the countries signatory to Abraham's normalization agreements with Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
"also think that what they have done can be an incentive to move forward ”
towards this goal. Saudi Arabia does not maintain official relations with the Jewish state.
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