PLO forms committee to halt security coordination with Israel

The PLO Executive Committee yesterday appointed the Political Committee and heads of the security services to develop a detailed plan to stop security coordination and review economic relations with Israel.

Member of the PLO Executive Committee, Ahmed Al-Majdalani, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site: “The political committee was commissioned with developing a detailed plan to arrange for suspending security coordination with the Israeli occupation in cooperation with security agency chiefs.”

“The same committee, in collaboration with several ministers and experts, will discuss the economic file, specifically the abolition of the Paris Convention,” Al-Majdalani noted.

The Executive Committee has also decided to form a Palestinian delegation that includes representatives of the Palestinian factions who will travel to the Gaza Strip to start a comprehensive dialogue with the participation of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on the implementation of the reconciliation decisions especially enabling the unity government to exercise its duties to reconstruct the Gaza Strip and to arrange for presidential and legislative elections.

A member of the Executive Committee, Wassel Abu Yousef, told the news site: “A date to visit Gaza has not been set yet, but the Palestinian factions are expected to meet in Ramallah on Sunday to determine the date and the meeting’s agenda.”

The Executive Committee has also decided to take the necessary steps to complete accession to the International Criminal Court and procedures to prosecute Israel for stealing Palestinian lands and its aggression against the Palestinian people especially in the Gaza Strip.

The national forces called on the Palestinian leadership to “take a different approach in dealing with the next phase, especially not to resume empty negotiations with Israel.”

The Committee condemned the racist, anti-Palestinian campaign led by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the elections.