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Saudi FM says blocking of West Bank visit shows Israel’s rejection of peace

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A delegation of Arab diplomats had been expected to meet with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

AMMAN: Israel’s blocking of a visit by Arab diplomats to the occupied West Bank showed its “rejection of… a diplomatic path to peace”, Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said today.

Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain, along with the Arab League chief, had planned a trip to the Palestinian territory, but Israel said Friday that it would not cooperate, effectively blocking the trip as it controls the area’s borders and airspace.

Speaking at a joint press conference in Amman with his Jordanian, Egyptian and Bahraini counterparts, Prince Faisal said Israel’s move “illustrates and confirms its extremism and its rejection of any serious attempt to engage in a diplomatic path toward peace… it is clear that they only want violence”.

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