Hamas Calls for Effective Implementation of PLO Decisions

Date: 16 January 2018 - 20:44

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GAZA (Dispatches) – The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas said Tuesday the real test of the decisions made by Palestine Liberation Organization is to enforce actual implementation on the ground.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stressed in a press statement which was sent to Xinhua that "mechanisms should be put in place to implement the decisions of the Central Council."
The PLO Central Council held its 28th session on January 14-15 in Ramallah, under the theme "al-Quds the eternal capital of the State of Palestine."
The Palestinian Central Council has called on Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to suspend recognition of the Zionist regime in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize al-Quds as the Tel Aviv regime's capital.
On Monday, the council voted in favor of ordering the PLO to halt its recognition of the regime until it officially recognizes the state of Palestine, suspends its annexation of east al-Quds and halts its settlement activities.
It is still unclear if the council's vote, which is a high-ranking part of the PLO, is binding.
The announcement was made after Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said that U.S. President Donald Trump's so-called Middle East peace efforts are the "slap of the century" after his al-Quds move.
Last month, Trump announced that Washington would recognize al-Quds as the capital of the Zionist regime and would relocate the U.S. embassy in the Israeli-occupied territories from Tel Aviv to the occupied city.
The entire al-Quds is currently under the regime’s control, while the regime also claims the city’s eastern part, which hosts the third holiest Muslim site.
The city has been designated as "occupied” under international law since the 1967 Arab War, which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
Trump had vowed during his presidential campaign that he would relocate the U.S. embassy in order to court pro-Israel voters.

Children hold Palestinian flags as they flash victory signs during a sit-in in the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, December 6, 2017.