Abbas: We are no longer bound by agreements with ‘Israel’, US

Ramallah (QNN)- PA President Mahmoud Abbas said the PA and Palestine are no longer bound by the agreements with the occupation state and United States, including security coordination.

“The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Palestine are absolved, as of today, of all the agreements and understandings with the American and Israeli governments and of all the commitments based on these understandings and agreements, including the security ones,” he said in a speech in Ramallah.

“Second, the Israeli occupation authority, as of today, has to shoulder all responsibilities and obligations in front of the international community as an occupying power over the territory of the occupied state of Palestine, with all its consequences and repercussions based on international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which holds the occupying power responsible for the protection of the civilian population under occupation and their property, criminalizes collective punishment, bans theft of resources, appropriation and annexation of land, bans forced transfer of the population of the occupied territory and bans transfer of the population of the occupying state (the colonialists) to the land it occupies, which all are grave violations and war crimes.”

He also called on world leaders to act towards Trump’s plan, which violates international law, and impose sanctions on the occupation state to prevent its plans.