Kuwait Condemns Settlement Expansion: Aims to Displace Palestinians, Entrench Illegal Annexation, and Undermine the Two-State Solution
Kuwait's envoy condemns settlement and displacement in Palestine and the Golan Heights before the Human Rights Council.
Translated by Qiyas from السياسة — Original source
- Called for an end to settlement activities and rejected the imposition of new facts of occupation in the Syrian Golan
The State of Kuwait today, Tuesday, strongly condemned settlement expansion, land confiscation, house demolitions in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and forced displacement, stressing that these practices aim to uproot Palestinians from their land, entrench illegal annexation, undermine the establishment of their independent state, and undermine the two-state solution.
This came in a statement delivered by the Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Nasser Al-Hin, before the UN Human Rights Council, during its 63rd session in Geneva, as part of the discussion of Agenda Item 7 concerning the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.
Ambassador Al-Hin also condemned settlement expansion in the occupied Syrian Golan and Israeli military incursions into Syrian territory, affirming Kuwait’s rejection of the imposition of new facts of occupation.
Kuwait reiterated its call for the immediate and complete cessation of settlement activities in the occupied territories, the prevention of commercial and investment activities aimed at entrenching settlements, alongside the immediate withdrawal and respect for Syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Ambassador Al-Hin stated that “occupation does not create rights, and the seizure of land by force does not confer sovereignty,” warning that seeking to profit from the suffering of the Palestinian people makes the perpetrator complicit in those practices.
Kuwait reaffirmed its firm positions regarding the rights of the Palestinian people, foremost among them their right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
