RAMALLAH, (DNA) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has said he has decided to stop implementing agreements with Israel amid worsening relations between the two sides.

“We announce the leadership’s decision to stop implementing the agreements signed with the Israeli side,” he said in a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Abbas had previously not spoken so clearly and definitively of a break in cooperation, although Palestinian officials have in the past made threats to stop implementing all accords with Israel.

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He said the Palestinians would immediately form a committee to study how to carry out the decision.

The two governments work together on matters ranging from water to security, and withdrawing from agreements could impact security in the occupied West Bank.

Abbas, 84, has made similar threats before and not implemented them.

But relations between Abbas’s government, based in the West Bank, and its Israeli counterpart have worsened in recent months.

In February, the Jewish state decided to deduct around $10 million a month from tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, corresponding to the amount it said the Palestinian Authority pays to families of prisoners or directly to inmates in Israeli jails.

Israel sees such payments as encouraging attacks while Palestinians see them as support for families who have often lost their main breadwinner.

The Palestinians have in response refused to take any of the roughly $180 million in monthly tax revenues until the full amount is transferred, leaving Abbas’s PA in financial crisis.

ISRAEL DEMOLISHES PALESTINIAN HOUSES

The Israeli occupying forces demolished 100 Palestinians houses in occupied Jerusalem area in Wadi Alhomos which is 3000000 Square meters. As a result, tens of Palestinians families have become homeless.

This step is to Judaize AlQouds Alshareef to make the colonial Zionist project successful with the support of USA after president Tramp recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in defiance with Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibited any actions to change the demographic and geographic status of occupied territories.

Israel has been ignoring the  Advisory opinion of the International court of justice on 9 July 2004 regarding building the apartheid wall in Palestine, which is in violation of the international laws that prohibit the usurpation by force the occupied lands.

We condemn Israeli measures in occupied Palestine with strongest words and we ensure that all their actions are illegal and constitute a violation of international law and international legitimacy.

We call upon the international community to stand up against the Israeli move and to exercise its legal and moral responsibilities by taking the necessary measures to stop the Israeli actions against our people.

We appeal to the international community to compel Israel to stop the policy of demolishing Palestinian houses, to compensate the Palestinian citizens for their material and moral losses, to enable the Palestinian people to rebuild their homes and to compensate them for their bulldozed farms.