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Saudi FM Meets Counterparts from Across the Globe on Sidelines of WEF in Riyadh

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah meets with his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf in Riyadh. (SPA)
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah meets with his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf in Riyadh. (SPA)
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Saudi FM Meets Counterparts from Across the Globe on Sidelines of WEF in Riyadh

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah meets with his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf in Riyadh. (SPA)
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah meets with his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf in Riyadh. (SPA)

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah received in Riyadh on Sunday his counterparts from across the globe on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum special meeting in Riyadh.

He held separate meetings with Algerian FM Ahmed Attaf, Sri Lankan FM Ali Sabry, Norwegian FM Espen Barth Eide and Malaysian FM Mohamad Hasan.

Talks focused on bilateral relations and ways to strengthen and develop them to achieve common interests.

They also discussed the latest regional developments, including the crisis in the Gaza Strip.

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Netanyahu: Israel Retains Right to Resume Gaza Fighting

FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
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Netanyahu: Israel Retains Right to Resume Gaza Fighting

FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
FILED - 03 March 2020, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivers an address. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa

Israel retains the right to resume war in Gaza with US backing should the second stage of the ceasefire prove pointless, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

"If we must return to fighting we will do that in new, forceful ways," Netanyahu said in a video statement.

"President (Donald) Trump and President (Joe) Biden have given full backing to Israel's right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile," he said.

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel will go into effect Sunday at 8:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT), mediator Qatar announced Saturday, as families of hostages held in Gaza braced for news of loved ones, Palestinians prepared to receive freed detainees and humanitarian groups rushed to set up a surge of aid.
The prime minister had warned earlier that a ceasefire wouldn’t go forward unless Israel received the names of hostages to be released, as had been agreed.

The pause in 15 months of war is a step toward ending the deadliest, most destructive fighting ever between Israel and the Hamas militant group — and comes more than a year after the only other ceasefire achieved. The deal was achieved under joint pressure from Trump and the outgoing administration of President Biden ahead of Monday's inauguration.
The first phase of the ceasefire will last 42 days, and negotiations on the far more difficult second phase are meant to begin just over two weeks in. After those six weeks, Israel’s security Cabinet will decide how to proceed.
Israeli airstrikes continued Saturday, and Gaza's Health Ministry said 23 bodies had been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours.