AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdallah concluded a brief visit to Syria on Thursday during which he and Syrian President Bashar Assad condemned Israel’s latest unilateral steps in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a joint communiqué carried by the official Petra news agency.
The two Arab leaders denounced “the unilateral Israeli measures that seek to judaize the holy city and emptying it of its Arab inhabitants, both Muslims and Christians,” the statement said.
The latest Israeli move in this respect was a decision to demolish 22 Palestinians houses in the suburb of Silwan to set up a biblical park, it added.
Abdallah and Assad urged collaboration of world efforts to ensure a lift of the “illegal and inhuman siege” Israel imposed on the Gaza Strip over the past three years. “The two leaders stressed the need for working out an international attitude for confronting Israel’s policies that so far prevented the accomplishment of tangible progress” in negotiations with the Palestinians.
They warned that the Middle East region “will not witness security and stability without the accomplishment of comprehensive and just peace”.
”Such peace should be founded on the relevant UN resolutions that ensure Israel’s pullout from all occupied Arab territories and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,” according to the statement.
