RAMALLAH: The official spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, today said that the statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he said that the occupation army is preparing for a possible confrontation with the Palestinian Authority’s security services in the West Bank clearly express his premeditated intentions and an Israeli decision to flare up the West Bank as part of the overall war waged by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people, their land, and their sanctities in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem.
Abu Rudeineh said Netanyahu’s statements, in which he referred to the establishment of a civil administration affiliated with the occupation in the Gaza Strip, are condemned and rejected, and constitute a challenge to the international community as a whole, and to the stated positions of the US administration, which declared its refusal to the reoccupation of Gaza or cutting off any part of it.
He stressed the po
sition of President Mahmoud Abbas in which he affirmed that the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the land of the State of Palestine and that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
He pointed out that these statements come in the context of the ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including killings and arrests of Palestinians, raids into cities, villages and refugee camps, forced displacement of residents, especially in the Jordan Valley, and withholding of Palestinian clearing funds.
The official presidential spokesman said that the Israeli occupation authorities will drag the region into endless wars and threaten international peace and security.
Abu Rudeineh called on the US administration to assume its responsibilities and oblige the Israeli occupation authorities to stop their escalating crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, bec
ause it is the only party capable of stopping the aggression.
He pointed out that the use by the United States of the veto at the Security Council on Friday was what gave the Israeli occupation the green light to continue the war, aggression, and crimes, which exceeded all the prohibitions of international law, stressing that the decision to stop the war is in the hands of the US president first and foremost.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA – English