CAIRO / ISTANBUL

Arab foreign ministers rejected any displacement of Palestinians from their land on Thursday, calling on the US to reconsider its bias for Israel.

In a resolution adopted following a meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, the foreign ministers called on the US to revise its bias for Israel.

They urged Washington “to work diligently and sincerely with the relevant parties to implement the two-state solution” to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the pre-1967 border.

The ministers called for “enabling the Palestinian people to determine their fate in their independent, sovereign, viable, and geographically contiguous state."

They also urged the US to pressure Israel “to end its occupation and cease its unilateral actions that are destroying the two-state solution."

The Arab call comes ahead of a planned regional tour by US President Donald Trump on May 13-16 that will include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

It also comes before the annual Arab summit in Iraq on May 17.

Gaza reconstruction

The Arab foreign ministers also called for providing political, financial, and legal support for the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip following Israel’s destructive war.

They welcomed the holding of an international donor conference in Cairo for Gaza reconstruction and called on the international community to participate in the meeting to accelerate the rebuilding of the Palestinian enclave.

On March 4, an emergency Arab summit in Cairo adopted Egypt's $53 billion reconstruction plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without displacing Palestinians from their land.

The Arab ministers also reiterated their support for holding an international conference co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and France in June on the two-state solution.

They affirmed their “categorical rejection” of Palestinian displacement from their land, calling it “part of the crime of genocide,” and “a flagrant violation of international law.”

Israel resumed its offensive on the Gaza Strip on March 18, abandoning a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January. It has killed nearly 51,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in the enclave since October 2023.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war that has left the territory on the brink of famine.