Senior Fatah official: Continuing the negotiations is futile

Continuing the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks will achieve nothing because Israel insists on depriving the Palestinians from their rights and land, General Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee, said.

Tirawi’s remarks came during a ceremony to mark the assassination of former Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Khalil Al-Wazir organised in Al-Quds University, Hebron.

Tirawi said Israel arrests Palestinians daily, expands its settlement projects and confiscates their land, making the two-state solution impossible. “Israel breached all international agreements which reveal its real intention that it does not want peace,” Tirawi explained.

The official said there will be no peace without the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, the return of all refugees to their homes and establishing the Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.

Tirawi paid tribute to all prisoners in Israeli jails saying: “The Palestinian leadership’s unchanging position about the prisoners forced Israel several times to release a number of them, but there will be no peace without releasing all the prisoners from Israeli prisons.”