PLO Official: Leadership Rejected American Invitation to Discuss Gaza’s Humanitarian Situation

Rasa - A Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said on Saturday the Palestinian leadership rejected an invitation by the United States to attend a donors meeting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza planned for March 13 at the White House.

News ID: 436800

Date: 10 March 2018 - 22:58

RNA - Ahmad Majdalani, member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, told Voice of Palestine radio that the issue of Gaza is a political one, not just humanitarian or relief issue, WAFA reported.

“The US knows very well that the tragic humanitarian situation in Gaza is due to the unjust Israeli siege and therefore what is needed is to find a political solution to this crisis,” he said.

“The meeting in Washington called for by US envoy Jason Greenblatt did not come from nothing and was neither for humanitarian reasons, but rather as part of efforts to liquidate our national cause,” he added, warning of a plot to separate Gaza from the West Bank as part of a long term plan for the region.

Majdalani stated that reports about US efforts to re-settle the Palestinian refugees in the countries they are found in are part of “suspicious American moves to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) by drying up its financial resources and then advocating re-settling the refugees in order to remove major issues such as refugee and Jerusalem from the negotiating table.”

He stressed that the US has failed to sell its “deal of the century” idea to the Arab countries since Washington did not find a single Arab country willing to cooperate with it in this undisclosed and ambiguous deal.

The Arabs have already clearly expressed their views on this matter in many occasions, the official added.

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