Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud praises the Palestinian Authority for providing security to Israel.

Speaking at the European Council on Foreign Relations conference in Madrid on 5 July, the foreign minister explained that the PA has lived up to its primary responsibility to Israel under the Oslo Accords, which is to provide security to Israel.

He claimed that despite its flaws, the PA is fully capable of governing a future Palestinian state alongside its 'neighbor' Israel, in the context of Israel's full integration into the region.

He stated that Israel sought to undermine the PA in the West Bank while bolstering Hamas in Gaza before the start of the war on 7 October as part of a strategy to prevent Palestinian unity and progress toward the establishment of a state.

Prince Faisal also expressed his support for the deployment of an international force in Gaza under a UN mandate to support the Palestinian Authority (PA) after the war.

In response, the Palestinian resistance made it clear that it will not allow any international force to be deployed in Gaza, and that the future of the Palestinians will be decided only by Palestinians.