President considering going to UN to challenge US decision

President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership are considering going to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the Security Council to challenge the US decision stopping all aid to the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which was created by a UNGA decision in 1949, in order to take the necessary measures to prevent getting the situation out of hand, said presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh on Saturday.

He said in a statement that UNRWA was established by a UNGA resolution in 1949, which stipulates that it will continue its role until a solution to the refugee issue is found.

He said President Abbas will touch on this matter when he addresses the UNGA later this month when he speaks about important issues such as the refugees and Jerusalem.

“This American decision does not serve peace, but rather promotes terrorism in the region and is also an attack on the rights of the Palestinian people,” he said, pointing out that this US decision is only one in a series of decisions and policies that are hostile to the Palestinian people, which include Jerusalem, attempting to separate Gaza from the West Bank and now ending all aid to UNRWA.

Abu Rudeineh stressed that this decision violates all UN resolutions and therefor requires from the United Nations to take a firm stand against it and to take the proper decision regarding it.

“No matter the number of conspiracies aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, this will only increase the resolve of the Palestinian people and their leadership to continue in the struggle and steadfastness to thwart all these conspiracies and achieve our legitimate rights by establishing our independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital with all its holy places and a just and agreed on solution to the refugee issue in accordance with the UN resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative,” concluded the president’s spokesman.