Abbas convenes an urgent meeting of the Palestinian leadership and the PLO warns of “a spiral of violence and instability”
July 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Palestinian government has demanded this Monday an “urgent international action” to stop “immediately” the “barbaric aggression” of the Israeli Army in the city of Jenin, after the start of a new operation that has resulted in at least seven Palestinians being killed. and has included shelling attacks on targets in the city’s refugee camp.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has indicated in a statement published on its website that it calls for “urgent international and American action to stop” Israel’s actions and has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “break its silence and start doing that Israeli war criminals are held accountable”.
Thus, it has said that it “condemns in the strongest terms” the operation and has said that it “holds the Government of Israel totally and directly responsible for the repercussions and crimes against defenseless civilians”, while it has denounced attacks against “mosques and households”.
In this sense, he stressed that “this aggression falls within the framework of Israel’s official policy to perpetuate the logic of military force to act against the defenseless Palestinian people and their just cause as an alternative to political solutions to the conflict.”
In a second statement, the ministry has warned of “the dangers of the attempts of the Israeli government and its spokespersons in the media to minimize the danger of this aggression and open military war against the Palestinians in general and Jenin and its camp in particular, in an attempt to present this aggression as a mission and not as a real war involving military aircraft.”
For this reason, he has emphasized that the ministry “has intensified its political and diplomatic movements at the regional and international level to expose the crimes of the occupation, its aggression and its clear colonial objectives.”
In fact, the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO), Hussein al-Sheikh, held a telephone conversation with the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, early in the day to address the situation in Jenin. .
Al Sheikh pointed out in a message on his account on the social network Twitter that during the conversation “the joint force at the Arab and international level to stop the Israeli aggression against Jenin and its camp” was discussed. “This continued aggression against our people will lead the region into a spiral of violence and instability,” he warned.
For his part, Safadi has warned of the “catastrophic consequences” that the “Israeli aggression” in Jenin could cause and has called on the international community to “adopt swift and decisive action to put an end to these practices and provide protection to the Palestinian people.” .
In this way, he has indicated that the operation “could lead to further escalation” and has stressed that “the repeated Israeli attacks against the Occupied Palestinian Territories only serve to increase tensions, fueled by illegal Israeli measures that undermine the two-term solution states and undermine the hope of achieving a just and comprehensive peace”.
For this reason, it has demanded that the Government of Israel “put an end to all its unilateral actions, including the invasion of Palestinian cities, the activities in the settlements, the confiscation of land and the economic siege of the Palestinian economy,” according to a statement published by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry through its website.
Likewise, it has asked Israel to “participate in serious negotiations aimed at ending the occupation and resolving the conflict based on the two-state solution, the only way to avoid further deterioration”, while stressing that ” the lack of political solutions are responsible for the serious deterioration of the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.
EMERGENCY MEETING
For his part, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmud Abbas, has called an urgent meeting of the Palestinian leadership to address the Israeli operation in Jenin, as reported by the Palestinian news agency WAFA, without further details having been released for the moment. .
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohamad Shtayé, has added to the condemnations, who has maintained that Israel “is trying to eliminate the Jenin refugee camp” and has added that “the Palestinian people will not surrender to this aggression, that they will resist to the end of the criminal occupation”.
Shtayé has also requested the “immediate” end of the offensive and that “Israel be punished for its terrorism and the terrorism of the settlers”, while stressing that “the Israeli Government, which seeks to resolve the conflict through of aggression, is aware that the oppressed people, who are fighting for freedom and independence, will ultimately emerge victorious”.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have announced on Twitter that Israeli soldiers are “attacking a terrorist infrastructure” in Jenin in order to “counter terrorism throughout the city and in the Jenin refugee camp.” “We have not come to occupy the refugee camp. It is not an operation against the Palestinian Authority, but against the terrorist groups in Jenin,” said Israeli Army spokesman Daniel Hagari.
Tensions have risen especially since June 19, when an Israeli army raid in Jenin left seven Palestinians dead — including two minors — and more than 90 wounded, an operation in which helicopter bombings were carried out for the first time since the end of the Second Intifada nearly two decades ago. Just a day later, four Israelis were killed in an attack near the Eli settlement.
In this context, hundreds of settlers carried out attacks against West Bank towns, events that resulted in the death of a Palestinian, while the Israeli Army killed three Palestinians –members of Islamic Jihad and the armed wing of Al Fatah– in a drone strike near Jenin. This targeted attack was also the first of its kind in the West Bank since the end of the Second Intifada.
