An-Najah News - Member of the PLO Executive Committee Dr. Hanan Ashrawi condemned the statements of the US ambassador to Israel David Friedman, in which the upcoming government of Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz urged the acceleration of the announcement of the annexation of areas in the occupied West Bank to Israel, and described this as deliberate escalation and incitement to commit crimes.

Ashrawi said in a statement, on behalf of the Executive Committee, on Wednesday: “Friedman’s extremist and flawed statements in it are a direct urge to continue violating the rights of our people and stimulate the continuation of annexations and theft of Palestinian lands, property, capabilities and funds, as they come within the framework of the policy of collusion pursued by the American administration with the extreme Israeli right, with the aim of providing the financial, legal, and military cover necessary to ensure the occupation state’s impunity, and accountability,” according to local sources.

She stressed the Palestinian leadership's adherence to the inalienable rights of our people and rejected any plans aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, adding: “We will not relinquish any inch of our land regardless of the threat, extortion, violence, and all means aimed at subjugating us.”

At the end of her statement, Ashrawi stressed “the necessity for the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities to reach a permanent solution that guarantees justice, freedom and peace for the Palestinian people, and that Israel and the United States bear the legal consequences necessary for their illegal policies.”