Iran, Saudi Arabia emphasize Islamic unity in face of displacement plans for Gazans
The Foreign Ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have highlighted solidarity of Muslims in confrontation with plans for forcible displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has met and conferred with his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, in the city of Jeddah on the sidelines of an extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Saudi city on Friday.
Araghchi and Farhan stressed “the necessity for the Islamic world to focus on addressing challenges, particularly regarding the occupied Palestine and preventing the conspiracy to erase Palestine through the forced displacement of the people of Gaza from the Strip.”
During the meeting, the two sides also reviewed the state of bilateral relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia and reiterated that both countries are determined to advance the shared goals of their leaders in developing relations across all fields.
The Iranian foreign minister arrived in Jeddah on Thursday to attend the OIC meeting convened to address Israeli aggression and crimes against Palestinians as well as Israeli plots to forcibly displace Gazans.
Last month, US President Donald Trump proposed that Washington would take over control of the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of US troops — to create a “Riviera” of West Asia, a yet-to-be-conceived plot that was widely bashed by the international community and Arab states, but welcomed by the occupying regime.
Israel launched its brutal US-backed aggression against Gaza after Hamas-led resistance groups carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime failed to achieve its declared objectives of freeing captives and eliminating Hamas despite killing at least 48,446 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.
Israel was force to agree to Hamas’s longstanding negotiation terms under a three-phase Gaza ceasefire, which began on January 19.
Later, however, Israel disrupted the truce by refusing to move forward to its second stage.
