Government of National Unity Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba stressed on Thursday that "what happened in Rome is a great matter, even if it was a side meeting and even if it occurred in passing," in his first comment on the meeting which brought his former Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. 

Dabaiba added in a speech before the cabinet: "Whatever the circumstances, the reasons and the method, and regardless of good or bad intentions, we will all know the details of what happened in Rome through the ongoing investigations."

Dabaiba stressed his rejection of "completely any form of normalization," declaring his support "for the Palestinian people, their just cause and their eternal capital, Jerusalem," reiterating his condemnation of the ongoing attacks on their rights by the Israeli occupation.

He added that "Najla Mangoush worked throughout the period of her responsibility for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with all sincerity to the issues of this country and defended it in every forum" but that "many parties took advantage of this incident to settle narrow political scores."

Dabaiba concluded that those who took advantage of what happened in Rome are "those who seek extension of their offices, chaos and the continuation of the immigration trade. They are those who asked the army of another country to attack their country while they raise bright slogans and wave flags in the unprecedented practice of political insolence".