Palestine has strongly condemned Fiji’s decision to open a Fijian embassy in Jerusalem, calling it a violation of international law and relevant United Nations resolutions.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry and the Hamas group issued separate statements, urging the Fijian government to reverse its decision.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the Fijian decision is “an act of aggression against the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights.”
The Palestinian group Hamas said in a statement that the decision is “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.”
Fiji will become the seventh country to have an embassy in Jerusalem after the US, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea, and Paraguay.
