Saeb Erekat
Planned bypass road in the E1 zone between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim part of an Israel plan to “sever the contiguity” of a potential Palestinian state, says PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat.
Israeli election results will “force the people of the region to live by the sword,” says top Palestinian official Saeb Erekat • Joint List’s Ahmad Tibi calls Netanyahu win a “dark day for the country.”
“Reminder to the International Community: Israel is an Occupying Power of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders,” tweeted PLO Executive Committee Secretary-General Saeb Erekat.
Palestinian security forces reportedly attempted to arrest other conference participants • Saeb Erekat: “Shameless” to claim that Palestinians were intimidated.
Senior P.A. official: “The peace plan will be postponed until after the U.S. 2020 elections and end up in the dustbin of history” • Kushner and Greenblatt arrive in Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“This is an official announcement that Palestine will not attend the Manama meeting,” said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. “This is a collective Palestinian position.”
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PLO chief negotiator says that in addition to 20 extra square kilometers of land Olmert also offered Abbas the Temple Mount and absorption into Israel of 150,000 Palestinians.
Palestinian leader Saeb Erekat said the international community should “not to engage in any kind of formal relationship or collaboration” with the embassy, which now includes the Palestinian affairs unit.
Refuting claims by Saeb Erekat that the United States wants to sever the West Bank from Gaza, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt tweets: “Please have more respect for the Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank; they deserve it.”
Official in Ramallah lists the steps the Trump administration has taken against the Palestinians and asks, “What more needs to happen for the office of the rais [president] to realize that Trump doesn’t just make promises or threats, he carries them out?”
While Jews around the world were celebrating the Jewish New Year, the U.S. State Department confirmed that it was ordering the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Mission in Washington, D.C.
