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News ID: 76101
Publish Date : 14 February 2020 - 23:10

Zionist Delegation Visits Saudi Arabia

RIYADH (Dispatches) – A high-ranking Zionist delegation from an umbrella U.S. Jewish group visited Saudi Arabia this week, a sign of increasing warmness between the occupying regime of Israel and the Saudi regime as the two sides look to forge closer informal ties and expedite normalization efforts.
Israel’s English-language broadsheet newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday that members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations visited Saudi Arabia this week, a move believed to be the first official visit to the kingdom by an American Jewish organization since the Oslo peace process in 1993.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency said the visit, which took place from Monday to Thursday, included meetings with senior Saudi officials as well as with Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Karim bin Abdulaziz al-Issa, the secretary general of the Muslim World League.
Issa is regarded as a close associate of Saudi Crown, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Saudi Arabia has expanded secret ties with the Zionist regime under the crown prince, the son of King Salman, who is viewed by many as the Kingdom’s de facto ruler.
Back in 2018, Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for a commercial flight to the Zionist regime with the start of a new Air India route between India and the occupied territories, although El Al Israel Airlines might not use Saudi airspace for eastward flights.
Critics say Saudi Arabia’s flirtation with the Zionist regime would undermine efforts to isolate Tel Aviv and affect the Palestinian cause in general.
Arrest Campaign Against
Palestinians

In another development, Saudi regime authorities have launched a new campaign of "arbitrary” arrests against Palestinian expatriates living in the conservative kingdom on charges of supporting the Hamas resistance movement.
The Prisoners of Conscience, a non-governmental organization advocating human rights in Saudi Arabia, announced in a post on its official Twitter page that the kingdom had detained a number of Palestinians, including the relatives or children of those imprisoned last April for the same reason.
On October 21 last year, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Arabic-language Shehab news agency in an exclusive interview that Palestinians being held at prisons and detention centers in Saudi Arabia are exposed to various forms of torture and cruel methods of interrogation.
"Unfortunately, there is a harsh investigation procedure against the detainees, some of whom are subjected to various forms of torture. Interrogators of different nationalities are questioning them,” he said then.
Abu Zuhri added, "There are about 60 Palestinian detainees [in Saudi jails], and some of them are the sons or supporters of Hamas. Some of them have even lived more than three decades in the kingdom and greatly contributed to the construction of the country.”
He further noted that Hamas has made great efforts, either through contacts with a number of countries or Saudi officials, to secure the release of the Palestinian inmates but all to no avail.