Jerusalem will not allow a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, Israeli Cabinet ministers said on Sunday, rejecting a U.S.-backed statement calling for a “pathway” toward creating “Palestine.”

“Israel will not agree to the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state in the heart of the Land of Israel, at point-blank distance from all of its population centers and with topographical control over them,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar tweeted in Hebrew on Sunday morning.

Jerusalem’s top diplomat noted that Israel Defense Forces troops were working to destroy three Iran-backed terrorist states: Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.