PA Chief warns Israel over rejection of two-state solution

FILE - In this May 12, 2021 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks a meeting of the PLO executive committee and a Fatah Central Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas fired Ehab Bessaiso, the director of the Palestinian national library, after he criticized the death of Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority. A letter, dated June 27, 2021, and signed by Abbas, did not give a reason for the dismissal. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

The President made the remarks during a meeting with representatives of the West Bank provinces of Bethlehem and Hebron held at his office in Ramallah.

Israel’s rejection of the two-state solution will “force us to go for other options”, said Abbas to the representatives.

“We will ask for the implementation of the United Nations Security Council’s resolution passed in 1947, or go to the one democratic state on the land of historic Palestine in which the full political and civil rights of the Palestinians are gained,” he added.

The President urged the international community to help the Palestinians get their rights and press Israel to stop its ongoing abuses against the Palestinians.

“The time has come to implement the decisions of international legitimacy. [We’ve had enough] promises and delays by the parties of the international community concerning the ending of the occupation and the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state,” he stated.