Leaders of Arab and Muslim countries on Monday called on Israel to fully withdraw from the Arab territories it occupies to achieve regional peace “global”during a summit in Saudi Arabia devoted to the situation in the Middle East.
“A just and comprehensive peace in the region (…) cannot be achieved without putting an end to the Israeli occupation of all the occupied territories” since 1967 – when Israel began occupying the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan – “and this in accordance with UN resolutions and the 2002 Arab peace plan”mentions the final declaration of the summit.
These leaders of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, hosted by Saudi Arabia, call for the unity of all the Palestinian territories – Gaza Strip and West Bank – within a Palestinian state, of which they reaffirm that the capital must be East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel.
The Riyadh summit represented, according to analysts, an opportunity for its participants to set their expectations for the future administration of US President-elect Donald Trump.
During his first mandate, the latter had multiplied gestures in favor of Israel, in particular by transferring the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but also contributed to the normalization of its links with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, the Morocco and Sudan, thanks to the Abraham Accords.
