Implementation of a two-state solution would involve the establishment of an independent State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel.
The first proposal for a separate Jewish and Arab states in the territory was made by the British Peel Commission report in 1937.
Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani participated Monday in a coordination meeting held in Riyadh at the invitation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Norway in support of efforts to implement the two-state solution and recognize the State of Palestine.
Foreign ministers and representatives of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, the Kingdom of Belgium, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Portuguese Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the Republic of Slovenia, the Republic of Turkiye, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the Arab League also participated in the meeting.
A top Hamas political official told Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.
Israel has vowed to crush Hamas following the deadly Oct. 7 attacks that triggered the war, and its current leadership is adamantly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state on lands Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.