The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, discussed today with the King of Jordan Abdullah II, ways to stop the all-out aggression against our Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
During his meeting with King Abdullah II, President Abbas called for an immediate end to the all-out aggression against the Palestinian people and the need to provide humanitarian medical and relief aid, providing water and electricity and opening urgent humanitarian corridors in the Gaza Strip.
President Abbas warned of the danger of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip stopping working due to running out of fuel, which portends a real disaster for all health and humanitarian services.
President Abbas stressed the need to move to political action to end the occupation and achieve peace, stressing the rejection of practices related to killing civilians or abusing them on both sides, calling for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees, and stressing the need to stop settler terrorism
against our people in Palestinian cities, villages and camps in the West Bank, and stop the extremists’ incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque, which cause an escalation of the situation.
The President reiterated the importance of obliging Israel to respect the historical and legal status quo in Muslim and Christian holy sites and emphasizing the importance of the Hashemite Custodianship of the holy places and providing what is necessary to prevent further attacks on them.
President Abbas said: “We emphasize the policy of the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, which renounce violence and adheres to international legitimacy, peaceful popular resistance, and political action as a path to achieving our national goals of freedom and independence, leading to ending the occupation and embodying the independence of our Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders.”
The meeting between President Abbas and King Abdulla II comes within the framework of the efforts
made by the Palestinian leadership around the clock to stop the destructive ‘war,’ and within the framework of coordinating positions between Palestine and Jordan.
President Abbas extended his deep appreciation and gratitude to His Majesty King Abdullah II for his firm stances and the support of Jordan and its standing by the Palestinian people and their just cause.
President Abbas is scheduled to meet, tomorrow, Friday, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
The meeting was attended by the Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Head of the General Intelligence Service, Major General Majid Faraj, the President’s Diplomatic Advisor, Dr. Majdi Khalidi and the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Jordan, Atallah Khairi.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA