- Violations should not go unchecked, Foreign Affairs Ministry says
- Cairo calls on UN, international community to protect Palestinian people
CAIRO: Egypt has condemned Israel’s ongoing military aggression in the West Bank, which has seen dozens of Palestinians killed or injured in recent days.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Cairo strongly denounced Israel’s attempts to expand the scope of confrontations within Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and its continued use of excessive military force, unlawful killings, bulldozing roads and destroying civilian infrastructure and homes.
These violations should not go unchecked and Israel must abide by its legal obligations as an occupying power and protect the security of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories instead of escalating the situation and fueling conflict, it said.
Egypt reiterated its warning of the dangers of adopting a scorched-earth policy, which aims to undermine all components of a future Palestine and eliminate what remains of the Palestinian people’s hope to regain their legitimate rights and establish an independent state on the June 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Cairo called on the international community and the UN Security Council to take a firm stance to halt such illegal practices and provide protection for the Palestinian people in the occupied areas.
