Foreign Ministry denounces Israeli plan to take full military control of Gaza

Saudi Arabia condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the Israeli cabinet’s decision on Thursday to occupy Gaza, and Israel’s continued crimes of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. The “inhumane ideas and decisions” taken by Israel show the government’s “failure to understand the emotional, historical, and legal ties of the Palestinian people to this land and their right to it, based on international law and humanitarian principles.