The ongoing Israel-Gaza flare-up is pushing the entire Middle East "in the wrong direction," Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said Tuesday.
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"This all pushes us absolutely in the wrong direction. It means that we are making a path toward a sustainable peace more difficult," he told French news agency AFP. "It empowers the most intolerant voices in our region and makes [finding] a path to real peace harder," he continued.
"We have to all work together to encourage all the parties to engage," he said. "First of all, to de-escalate, to stop the violence and then to engage in serious peace talks toward a final settlement."
That final settlement "must include a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital," he said.
