A general view shows the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (Credit: AFP)
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar have reiterated the government’s stance that it will not accept a Palestinian state on Sunday.
“Israel’s policy is clear: There will be no Palestinian state,” Katz said on X, adding that Gaza would be “demilitarized down to the last tunnel,” and Hamas disarmed by the Israeli military in parts of Gaza under its control and by the international stabilization force or the Israeli military in the rest of the enclave.
In a separate post on X, Saar said Israel “would not agree” to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The comments came after two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to assert that Israel would never accept the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The two-state solution is a proposed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by establishing two states for two peoples: Israel and Palestine (formed from the West Bank and Gaza Strip).
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