Israel issued a military order yesterday to prevent the governor of Jerusalem in the Palestinian Authority, Adnan Ghaith, from entering the West Bank for six months, while the forces arrested 14 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and transferred them to unknown destinations for investigation, the Palestinian presidency called on the world to vote against a draft resolution An American at the United Nations to condemn the Hamas movement.
The IDF commander in the West Bank, Nadaf Fadan, issued a military order preventing the Jerusalem governor of the Palestinian Authority from entering the West Bank for six months. The order, which was published on Palestinian websites, canceled the permits granted to Adnan Ghaith to enter the West Bank.
According to the decision, Ghaith was convicted of "illegal, violent and dangerous activities."
Israel has arrested Ghaith on three occasions in the past two months, the last of which was Sunday, a week ago.
Palestinian sources say that Israel's actions against Ghaith and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem come against the backdrop of their moves to prevent Israeli settlement groups from controlling Palestinian property in East Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces arrested 14 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and arrested them. Palestinian sources said that the Israeli occupation forces launched in recent days a campaign of large-scale arrests among Palestinians fearing a major escalation in the West Bank cities.
In Ramallah, the Palestinian presidency yesterday called on the world to vote against a US draft resolution condemning the Hamas movement.
In a statement published by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, the presidency said it was in constant contact with the Arab and Islamic group and many friendly countries "to work to thwart this American decision."
At the same time, the Presidency stressed "the need to vote in favor of the separate project submitted by Ireland, which confirms the international references to work for a comprehensive and just political solution to the Palestinian issue, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy."
For its part, considered Hamas movement that the draft resolution to condemn the US «Israeli excellence».
"The current US administration is working in partnership with the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and its just cause," spokesman Abdullatif al-Qanoua said in a statement. He urged the countries of the world to thwart the American draft resolution to "redress the Palestinian people and not be dragged behind the unjust US administration or align with it."
The Palestinian demand was followed by a UN General Assembly vote by US Ambassador Nicky Halley on the US draft resolution against Hamas for launching rockets into Israel without ensuring a sufficient majority to allow it to be adopted. If approved, it would be the first UN condemnation of Hamas. In recent days, the United States has put pressure on rare EU support from the European Union. The consultations are expected to break Halley's latest campaign at the United Nations, which has announced that she will leave her duties by the end of this year. An expert on the file, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that if this happened, "everyone will lose."
Diplomats said that Nicky Halley, who provides unconditional support for Israel, made the condemnation of Hamas a "very personal issue." "They want to leave (the United Nations after completion) something."
"No one in Washington has asked for a resolution," another diplomat said. "It is now agreed (in Washington) to consider that the United Nations is useless, and that condemnation by the General Assembly is not what will solve the problem."