Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, when asked by reporters in Washington what the plan was for a Palestinian state, said that there would not be one.
Sa'ar made the comment to reporters following a Wednesday meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington that the foreign minister described as "very good."
The pair discussed key issues in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as the importance of countering Iran’s malign influence. They did not take questions from the press ahead of the meeting.
Sa'ar is also slated to meet with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, whom he hosted in Israel in May following the murder of two employees at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
Rubio, Grossi meet
Rubio also met with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi on Wednesday.
In a press statement, the State Department said that the two discussed global nuclear safety, including at Ukrainian nuclear facilities, and IAEA efforts to conduct monitoring and verification activities in Iran.
Grossi announced yesterday that IAEA inspectors were back in Iran for the first time since the 12-day war in June.
"When it comes to Iran, as you know, there are many facilities; some were attacked, some were not," Grossi added. "So we are discussing what kind of modality is practical, [what kind of] modalities can be implemented, in order to facilitate the restart of our work there," he told Fox News on Tuesday.
"It’s not an easy situation, as you can imagine, because for some in Iran, the presence of international inspectors is detrimental to their international security. For some, that is not the case. ”