Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Dine El-Otmani on Sunday rejected any normalization of relations with Israel.

He informed the Justice and Development Party, “We refuse any normalization with the Zionist entity because this emboldens it to go further in breaching the rights of the Palestinian people."

The remarks came ahead of a visit to the region by Jared Kushner, a senior adviser and son-in-law to US President Donald Trump, and after the UAE and Israel struck a deal to normalize ties.

Morocco’s official position has been in support of the two-state solution, with East Jerusalem as capital of a Palestinian state.

Morocco and Israel began low-level ties in 1993 after the Oslo accords was reached, but Morocco suspended relations with Israel after the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising in 2000.