ISLAMABAD, May 20 (DNA):Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday declared an end to the agreements and understandings signed with Israel and the United States and turned over responsibility on the occupied territories back to Israel.

“The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Palestine are absolved, as of today,

of all the agreements and understandings with the American and Israeli governments and of

all the obligations based on these understandings and agreements, including the security

ones,” Abbas declared at an emergency meeting held in Ramallah, the Palestinian city

located in the West Bank.

   The meeting was held to discuss Israeli plans to annex parts of the occupied Palestinian

land as declared in the new Israeli government’s coalition agreement, the embassy of Palestine

in Islamabad said here quoting Palestinian News Agency, Wafa.

    President Abbas said the Israeli occupation authority had to shoulder all responsibilities and

obligations in front of the international community as an occupying power over the territory of

the occupied state of Palestine, “with all its consequences and repercussions based on

international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention

of 1949″.

   The president mentioned that the Convention held the occupying power responsible for the

protection of the civilian population under occupation and their property, criminalized punishment,

banned theft of resources, appropriation and annexation of land, banned forced transfer of the

population of the occupied territory and also banned transfer of the population of the occupying

state (the colonialists) to the land it occupies.

    In his speech, President Mahmoud Abbas referred to the provisions of the Israeli government

coalition agreement, which stated that “the Prime Minister will be able to bring the agreement that

was reached with the United States on applying sovereignty starting on 1 July 2020 to the

Cabinet and the Knesset'”

    He also mentioned the speech of the Prime Minister of the occupation government at the

Knesset the day before yesterday, which he said, did not include anything about commitment

to the signed agreements, rather asserted the application of Israeli sovereignty on the Israeli

colonies in the Palestinian territories.

    The Palestinian president rejecting the so-called “deal of the century” said it meant that the

occupation authority had annulled the Oslo Agreement and all agreements signed with it.

    He said the American administration recognized Jerusalem as capital of Israel and moved its

embassy there, its publication of the deal, which set the base for the Israeli annexation declaration

as a blatant violation of the resolutions of the international legitimacy and international law.

    He reiterated firm adherence to the right of Palestinian people to continue in their national

struggle to end the occupation and establish the independent, contiguous and sovereign state

of Palestine on the June 4, 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, solve the refugee

issue based on the Arab Peace Initiative and release of the Pale