2024-07-24 19:21:13
At the conclusion of meetings held in China, the Palestinian factions announced their “agreement to reach a ‘comprehensive national unity’ that includes all forces within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and to form an interim national consensus government.”
The factions said in a statement: “The national factions agreed during their meetings in China to reach comprehensive Palestinian national unity, including all Palestinian forces and factions within the framework of the PLO, and to commit to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with United Nations resolutions, and to guarantee the right of return in accordance with Resolution 194.”
She added: “Based on the National Accord Agreement signed in Cairo on May 4, 2011, and the Algiers Declaration signed on October 12, 2022, the factions decided to continue to follow up on the implementation of the agreements to end the division with the help of Egypt, Algeria, China and Russia.”
The factions specified in the statement, “four items related to following up on the implementation of the agreements to end the division, the first of which is the commitment to “the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions, especially resolutions 181 and 2334, and ensuring the right of return in accordance with resolution 194.”
The second, according to the statement, stipulates “the right of the Palestinian people to resist and end the occupation in accordance with international laws and the United Nations Charter, and the right of peoples to self-determination and struggle to achieve this in all available forms.” The third is based on “forming a temporary national unity government with the agreement of the Palestinian factions and by a decision of the president based on the Palestinian Basic Law in force, and for the formed government to exercise its powers and authorities over all Palestinian territories in a manner that confirms the unity of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.”
The statement said: The desired government “will begin by unifying all institutions in the territories of the Palestinian state and begin rebuilding the sector, and preparing for holding general elections under the supervision of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission as soon as possible in accordance with the approved elections law.”
In the fourth item, the factions said in the statement: “In order to deepen the political partnership in bearing national responsibility and in order to develop the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the agreement was confirmed to activate and regularize the temporary unified leadership framework for partnership in political decision-making, in accordance with what was agreed upon in the Palestinian National Accord Document signed on May 4, 2011, until the practical steps to form the new National Council are implemented in accordance with the approved elections law.”
The factions agreed in Beijing to “resist and thwart attempts to displace Palestinians from their land, and to emphasize the illegitimacy of settlements and settlement expansion in accordance with the resolutions of the UN Security Council and General Assembly and the opinion of the International Court of Justice.” The factions also agreed to “work to lift the brutal siege on Gaza and the West Bank, and the importance of delivering humanitarian and medical aid without restrictions or conditions,” in addition to “supporting the families of martyrs and the wounded and all those who lost their homes and property.”
The statement indicated that the factions agreed on a “collective mechanism to implement the provisions of the declaration in all its aspects.”
Fourteen Palestinian factions held a meeting in the capital, Beijing, at the official invitation of China, and it lasted for two days. The factions participating in the meeting were: Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Palestinian People’s Party, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, and the Palestinian National Initiative Movement. The meeting also included the Popular Front – General Command, the Palestinian Democratic Union (FIDA), the Palestine Liberation Front, the Arab Liberation Front, the Palestinian Arab Front, and the Vanguard of the Popular Liberation War (Sa’iqa Forces).
The factions’ secretaries-general held two meetings in the past few years, the first in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 3, 2020, and the second in the Egyptian city of El Alamein on July 30, 2023, and Beijing hosted a meeting between Fatah and Hamas last April.
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