Eight Nations
Issue Fierce Condemnation of Israeli Land Seizure Decision in Occupied West
Bank

Ankara, 17 Feb
2026 (ONA) — A coalition of eight nations, including Turkey, Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, has issued a forceful condemnation
of the Israeli occupation’s decision to designate vast tracts of land in the
occupied West Bank as “state lands,” according to a joint statement
released today by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The collective
statement, endorsed by the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, the United Arab
Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar,
denounced in the strongest terms the occupation’s declaration classifying
occupied West Bank territories as “state lands” and its approval to
initiate large-scale land registration and property ownership settlement
procedures—the first such action since 1967.

The
ministerial declaration affirmed that this unlawful measure constitutes a grave
escalation designed to accelerate illegal settlement expansion, facilitate land
confiscation, entrench Israeli occupation control, and impose illegitimate
sovereignty over occupied Palestinian territory, thereby systematically
undermining the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.

The ministers reiterated their categorical
rejection of all unilateral actions aimed at altering the legal, demographic,
and historical character of the occupied Palestinian territory, emphasizing
that such policies represent a perilous escalation certain to inflame tensions
and destabilize not only the occupied Palestinian territory but the entire
region.

— Ends/Khalid