Different Palestinian political forces have strongly denounced head of Sudan’s sovereignty council Abdul-Fattah al-Burhan for holding a meeting on Monday with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu met in Uganda.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said that “such meetings would embolden the Israeli occupation state to persist in its crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people and its desecration of the Arab and Muslim nations’ holy sites.”
“They would also encourage the occupation and the US administration to continue denying our people’s legitimate rights” spokesman Qasem added.
The spokesman stressed the need to end all forms of normalizations with the Israeli occupation warning that having relations with the occupation state would only serve its insatiable expansionist plans and cause great harm to the Arab peoples’ interests and their national security.
For its part the Islamic Jihad Movement also slammed Burhan’s meeting with Netanyahu saying that his meeting cannot erase “the sincere and noted position of the Sudanese people who are considered one of the strongest supporters of the Palestinian cause and resistance.”
“This sinful meeting constitutes a departure from the genuine Arab Sudanese stance and the Three No’s of Khartoum which have always been part of the most important Arab constants that represent the pulse of the Arab peoples and their voice that opposes normalization and criminalizes any relationship with the Zionist enemy” Islamic Jihad underlined.
It called on the Sudanese people to condemn Burhan’s meeting with the Israeli premier and stand in the face of any attempt to undermine their supportive position towards the Palestinian people.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine also denounced the meeting and urged the Sudanese people to confront any normalization steps resulting from it.
The meeting also received condemnation from Saeb Erekat secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee who called it “a stab in the back of the Palestinian people” and “a flagrant departure from the Arab peace initiative.”
Netanyahu and Burhan met in Uganda on Monday evening and agreed to start normalizing ties between Sudan and Israel according to different Hebrew news outlets.
Immediately after the meeting Netanyahu’s office said in a statement: “It has been agreed to start a cooperation that will lead to normalizing the ties between the countries.”
News reports affirmed that Burhan came to Uganda especially in order to meet with the Israeli premier who was there for a day-long diplomatic visit. The meeting between the two leaders lasted for two hours.
They also quoted a senior Sudanese military official as saying that the meeting was orchestrated by the United Arab Emirates and allegedly aimed at helping Sudan to clear its name as a state that sponsored terrorism in the past.
