Feb. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Palestinian authorities will hold a meeting this Friday to “discuss ways to respond” to the actions of the “occupation”, as announced on Wednesday by the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hussein al Sheikh, amid rising tensions in the area.
“The leadership will hold a meeting this Friday to discuss ways to respond to the continuation of the rise in tensions by the occupation,” he said in his account on the social network Twitter, before denouncing a “massacre” for the “demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank”.
Al Sheikh has also pointed out that the Israeli authorities “continue their policy of displacement and apartheid” against the Palestinian population and has called on the international community to “intervene immediately to stop this massacre.”
The words of the high official of the PLO come a day after the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmud Abbas, conveyed to the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, his willingness to “work” with Washington and the international community to “restore the political dialogue” with the goal of “putting an end to the Israeli occupation.
Tensions have risen in recent months, including the killing of around 30 Palestinians so far this year in security operations and clashes with Israeli security forces. On Friday, seven people were killed in an attack carried out by a Palestinian in the Neve Yaakov settlement, while two other Israelis were wounded on Saturday after being shot by a thirteen-year-old Palestinian.
