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Palestine has strongly condemned the recent decision of the Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to open a Fiji Embassy in occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry and Hamas has called such a move as a violation of international law and other relevant UN resolutions.
In separate statements, Tuesday, they urged the Fijian government to reverse its decision.
The Fijian decision is “an act of aggression against the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights,” and it impedes “prospects for peace based on the principle of the two-state solution,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry according to Anadolu.
Hamas called the decision as “a blatant assault on the rights of our Palestinian people to their land and a clear violation of international law and UN resolutions, which recognize Jerusalem as occupied Palestinian territory.”
On Tuesday, the Fijian Foreign Ministry announced on its official website that the country’s Cabinet has approved the establishment of an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.
If the decision is not reversed which it seems likely judging from close relationship between Rabuka and Israel, Fiji will become the seventh country to have an embassy in Jerusalem after the US, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea, and Paraguay.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry also affirmed it would take the necessary diplomatic, legal, and political steps to prosecute the countries that opened or relocated their embassies to Jerusalem according to the Wafa news agency.
