US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for an end to “extremist violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank. during the meeting with Palestinian President Abu Mazen in Ramallah. And he said Gaza residents should not be “forcibly displaced.” It is the first meeting between the two since the conflict between Israel and Gaza.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) “will assume its full responsibility” for the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza – said President Abu Mazen – within the framework of “a global political solution”.
Abu Mazen, in the meeting with Blinken, called for “the immediate cessation of the devastating war and the acceleration of the delivery of humanitarian aid, including medicine, food, water, electricity and fuel, to Gaza.” “We meet again in extremely difficult circumstances,” he added, and there are no words to describe the war of genocide and destruction that our Palestinian people in Gaza are being subjected to by the Israeli war machine without regard to the rules of international law” “How can we remain silent about the killing of 10,000 Palestinians, including 4,000 children, tens of thousands injured and the destruction of tens of thousands of housing units, infrastructure, hospitals, reception centers and water tanks,” he added. “What is happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem is no less terrible in terms of killings and attacks on land, people and sacred sites by occupiers and terrorist settlers who commit crimes of ethnic cleansing, racial discrimination and piracy.
In recent days, Blinken said in a congressional hearing: “At some point it would make most sense for an effective and revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern and ultimately be responsible for the security of Gaza.” These comments were the first time that The Biden administration publicly expressed its desire for the Palestinian Authority to return to the Gaza Strip after privately raising the idea with regional partners during the Israel-Hamas war.
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