New York/Information Office / 22 October 2014/The State of Qatar has renewed its call for the UN Security Council to take a binding decision for Israel to end the occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories, and stop illegal settlement and all practices that violate international law, as well as to take actions to move with a clear political and time-limited plan towards the two-State solution. It said the security, stability and peace in the region, including the security of Israel, requires courage and real steps towards the solution of the establishment of a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side in peace with Israel, and guarantee the rights of the Palestinian people, and also the withdrawal from all other occupied Arab lands including the occupied Syrian Golan, the Shab'a farms and Ghajar in Lebanon. This came in Qatar statement delivered today by HE Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, the Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations before a meeting of the open debate of the UN Security Council on the item "the situation in the Middle East including the Palestinian question". HE Sheikha Alia said: "We agree with you on the importance of the members of the Security Council and other United Nations members discussing how best to realize a rapid progress towards the achievement of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, and specifically to achieve a two-State solution as we have seen in the recent escalation in Gaza is a reminder of the importance of finding sustainable solutions to the situation in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory as temporary solutions or partial settlements are counterproductive and unacceptable, she added. HE Sheikha Alia said it is high time that the Security Council should take the legal and moral responsibility and act to guarantee that such escalation would not to be repeated as that resulted in a regrettable humanitarian consequences on both sides, particularly the Palestinians. She stressed that need to stop violations of holy places and freedom of worship in Palestine by the Israeli authorities where a serious policy against Al-Haram Al-Sharif was adopted including attempts to prevent worshipers from entering in. She added that the State of Qatar strongly condemns and rejects such violations that would increase tension and instability in the region. .