Kuwait - The State of Kuwait renewed its strong condemnation of the crimes and attacks committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the city of Jerusalem.
In a speech before the UN Security Council session on Palestine, Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah said that the international community is following with great concern the dangerous escalation in the Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, through the crimes and attacks committed by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Palestinian people.
"Kuwait denounces all Israel's illegal settlement schemes, its bids to seize Palestinians' houses and properties, particularly citizens' assets in Jerusalem, namely in Sheikh Jarrah district, seeking to evacuate the holy city of its population for sake of Judaizing it," the Kuwaiti foreign Minister said in a statement carried by Kuwait's KUNA.
"Such practices are illegal and illegitimate breaches and constitute flagrant violation of the relevant international resolutions and references that affirm that unilateral measures and decisions aimed at altering the legal and historic status in the occupied territories are invalid and false; they neither create a right nor a commitment."
"The attacks and crimes perpetrated by the occupation Israeli forces are part of a chain of violations by Israel, the occupation-based power, of the Security Council resolutions 242, 338, 476, 478 and 2334, stipulating that sanctity of Jerusalem cannot be desecrated," he added.
" Eviction of residents of the district, Sheikh Jarrah, is a crime and breach of the international law. This case is subject to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, thus the occupation-based power must honor its obligations and maintain private properties in the occupied territories -- that cannot be expropriated," the Kuwaiti foreign Minister explained.
He reiterated Kuwait's adherence to the Arab stance that affirms that peace is a strategic option, that the aspired settlement is based on the two states option, Security Council resolutions, the land for peace principle, the road map and the Arab peace initiative, all designed to enable the Palestinians to establish their independent.
