Al Jazeera asked Farhan Haq, the UN spokesman for the secretary-general, for a response to the comments made by the nominee for the US ambassador to the UN about the occupied West Bank.
Elise Stefanik on Tuesday had told US senators that she agreed that Israel had a “biblical right” to the occupied West Bank.
Here’s what Haq said:
“Our response is that the West Bank is part of the occupied Palestinian territories, and of course, as such, the future of that of the West Bank, Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories as a whole needs to be dealt with through negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian authorities.”
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