The United States will continue to work for a comprehensive and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, which provides a better future for all, a US State Department spokesman said.
The US spokesman expressed the hope that the Palestinian Authority will engage constructively in the political process, rather than continue to issue non-constructive signals, as he put it.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that he would suspend the agreements signed with the Israeli side and set up a committee to implement the decision, according to the Palestinian Central Council, a few days after Israel demolished Palestinian residential buildings in the town of Sur Bahir, south of occupied Jerusalem.
Abbas said in a televised speech at the end of an emergency meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah that the decision to stop the agreements signed with Tel Aviv is due to "the insistence of the occupying state to renounce all the signed agreements and their obligations."
He added that Israel is killing Palestinians, demolishing their houses and confiscating their land, in addition to closing roads with hundreds of barriers, building walls, pirating Palestinian funds and attacking settlers on the property of the Palestinian people and Islamic and Christian holy sites.
Omar al-Ghoul, adviser to the Palestinian president, said on Friday that the decision to stop the agreements also includes security coordination with the occupation.
Informed sources told Al-Jazeera that on the basis of the president's announcement, a committee will be formed comprising members of the Executive Committee and related parties to determine the mechanism for implementation of the resolution, which is expected to be in stages and steps.
The member of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah Osama al-Qawasmi of the island that there is no return to the decision to stop all agreements signed with the Israeli side.