Pals reiterate right to declare a State, Israel blasts

By: Ahmad Hammadi

HELD JERUSALEM: Palestinian leaders on Saturday voiced their right to declare an independent state unilaterally in the absence of a peace deal with Israel after Israel threatened to take stand-alone measures of its own.

During a meeting Friday night, the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, also named Arab East Jerusalem, seized by Israel in 1967 and annexed in a move rejected internationally, as the capital of a Palestinian state.

“The Palestinian leadership, in line with international legitimacy and signed agreements...has the right to declare an independent democratic Palestine on all the territories that were occupied (by Israel) since 1967,” the Committee reiterated in a statement released after the meeting.

Meanwhile, Israel attacked the Palestinians reiteration and said that this threat would bring no result and nor solve problems between the two sides.

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