Senior PA officials attack Trump's agreements with Kosovo and Serbia leaders to upgrade relations with Israel • Arab League secretary general: "The move is reprehensible"
In the past three weeks, since US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates would sign a peace agreement, the Palestinian Authority has been conducting a diplomatic "battle for containment" - in an attempt to stop pro-Israel drift around the world and the Arab world in particular. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain announce that they will allow Israeli planes to use their airspace, and yesterday (Friday) came another defeat: the first European country announced that it would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - Serbia.
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The Palestinians, as expected, were outraged by the announcement and the PA ambassador to Serbia, Muhammad Nabhan, was quick to respond.
"This statement, as long as it materializes, is contrary to international law and UN resolutions concerning the Palestinian question and Jerusalem as an occupied city," Nabhan said. "The relocation of the embassy will infringe on the rights of the Palestinian people to fulfill its state in all territories occupied by Israel in 1967."
Following statements to upgrade Kosovo and Serbia's relations with Israel, the Foreign Ministry in Ramallah said it "sees the decision to open embassies of these countries in Jerusalem as clear aggression against the Palestinian people, our goal and national rights. This announcement is new proof that the Trump administration is using its influence to blackmail countries. To submit to the dictates of their foreign policy. "
The person who joined the condemnations was the secretary general of the Arab League, Ahmad Abu al-Wright, the same person who avoided a situation in which his organization would convene to condemn the peace agreement between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi. The security that prohibits countries from transferring their embassies to Jerusalem, as well as Resolution 478 of 1980, which prohibits the establishment of diplomatic missions in the city. "