In a show of unity, leaders of all Palestinian factions are set to hold a meeting to discuss “unified strategy” for countering Israeli-US conspiracies, including their land grab agenda, following a controversial Washington-brokered normalization accord between the illegal Zionist entity and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
According to reports, representatives of various Palestinian factions will attend the meeting via video conference on Thursday. The gathering, the first of its kind since 2013, is headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Representatives of the Palestinian factions in the occupied West Bank have been invited to Abbas’s office in Ramallah to join the gathering. The leaders of Palestinian factions abroad will join the meeting from the Palestinian embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Abbas is scheduled to deliver a speech to the gathering via video-conference.
The rare meeting comes after an August 13 announcement that Israel and the UAE have agreed to normalize ties.
“The main purpose of the meeting is to launch important steps towards achieving [Palestinian] national unity and foiling the annexation conspiracy, apartheid, settlement and the Judaization of al-Quds,” said Nabil Abu Rudaineh, spokesman for the Palestinian presidency.
“The meeting itself constitutes a clear message to all that the Palestinian people and their holy sites are bigger than all the conspiracies,” he said.
Abu Rudaineh added that the meeting would also send a “powerful and clear message” to all about the need to “protect the foundations that will lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital”.
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat said that Thursday’s meeting of the Palestinian leaders “shows that we are facing a new phase in confronting the UAE-US-Israeli agreement that seeks to impose the so-called ‘Deal of the Century”, laid out by US President Donald Trump.
He said that the Thursday meeting shows that the Palestinians and all their factions and representatives “are prepared to face all challenges.”
Hamas leader in Beirut to meet Palestinian factions
Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, arrived in Beirut earlier this week to participate in the meeting.
According to Ali Baraka, Hams representative in Lebanon, Haniyeh will meet representatives of other Palestinian factions in rare talks on how to respond to such accords and to the controversial peace plan announced by Washington this year.
Baraka said that Thursday’s joint discussions in Ramallah and Beirut aim to develop “a unified Palestinian strategy to confront normalization schemes ... and to reject plans to annex the West Bank as well as [Trump’s] ‘deal of the century’.”
The last time most heads of Palestinian factions held joint talks was in 2013 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Resistance groups urge stronger unity
In a joint statement carried by the Lebanese al-Mayadeen television channel, Palestinian resistance groups described the joint meeting as a key step toward consolidating unity among Palestinian factions and countering schemes to undermine the Palestinian issue.
The statement said that the Oslo Accord, which had guaranteed a “two-state solution” to the Arab-Israel conflict, must be annulled.
It stressed the right of the Palestinian people to confront the Israeli regime with all possible means.
The resistance groups also called for an agreement on a Palestinian national strategy based on fixed principles for a comprehensive confrontation with the occupying regime.
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