2024-05-16 Time: 08:30:49 (Jerusalem)
Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, condemn the signing of US ambassador David Friedman, a number of agreements with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in “ Ariel “ settlement, which calls for expanding of scientific cooperation between the United States and the state of Israel to include the illegal settlements and lift the ban on scientific cooperation with the institutions existing in these settlements in the West Bank, and consider that as actual participation of the American administration in the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people and direct support for the implementation of the colonial annexation plan.
He added that these hostilities, which take cooperation in scientific research as a cover for , reveal the extent of the misinformation practiced by both Washington and Tel Aviv with the Arab countries that announced normalization of their relationship with the occupying power and the falsity of their claims that the normalization agreements came to serve stopping annexation of large areas of the West Bank , as it declared in the annexation maps that were announced at the joint press conference between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu end of last January.
In response to this hostile act , violating international laws and norms, he called on the international community to assume its responsibilities in accordance with international law and international legitimacy, including the advisory opinion of the ICJ of 2004, which condemned the construction of the wall and demanded Israel to stop work on it, demolish what it had built, and restitute the damage caused to individual citizens and official and private public institutions and administrations, resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations that condemn settlement activities and calls on Israel to stop it unconditionally, especially Resolution 2334 of 2016, calling on both the American administration and the occupation government to stop this policy and to respect international law and international conventions, including the statute Rome to the International Criminal Court, which considers settlement-building a war crime and subject to accountability .
Tayseer Khaled emphasized that this unprecedented cooperation between the American administration and Israel is being employed in the race of presidential elections in the United States of America in the interest of enhancing Donald Trump's chances to exceed , constitutes a blatant aggression against the Palestinian people and requires without delay the acceleration to achieve national reconciliation to strengthen national unity , as a translation of the outcomes of the meeting with the general secretaries of the national and Islamic factions on the third of last September , with practical steps through accelerating the formation of the unified national leadership, and the national commission for national strategy, which should form a national road map, the main points of which are boycotting Israeli goods and national resistance, especially in the countryside, and national disobedience, to push international community to effectively intervene in order to reach within the framework of an international peace conference on the basis of international law and relevant international legitimacy , a political settlement of the conflict that provides security and stability to all peoples and states in the region, including the state Palestine on the borders of June 4, 1967, and preserve the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, from which they were expelled by brute military force in 1948 .
