The Palestinian presidency and Palestinian officials condemned the US State Department's decision to remove the name of the Palestinian Authority from its official website that defines the countries of the Middle East. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the resolution could not cancel the existence of the State of Palestine and the people of Palestine on the 1967 borders.
The new US move comes as President Donald Trump's administration is shaping up its plan for peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
The Palestinians considered the move provocative, since the list of Middle East countries on the State Department website is nowhere to be mentioned by the Palestinians, whether by mentioning the Palestinian Authority or the Palestinian territories. For the West Bank and Gaza.
The Palestinian presidency saw in Washington's step an unprecedented decline in US foreign policy, and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said that the move will not cancel the existence of Palestine as a state under occupation.
Omar Awadallah, head of the UN Department and specialized organizations in the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, told Al-Jazeera that the Palestinian government would face this decision with all the tools of international law.
He pointed out that the danger is that "the United States is insisting on isolating itself from the Palestinian file in a crude and crude enough, so we say that the danger to the American role in the region and not the Palestinian cause."
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "the failure of the occupation state to recognize the Palestinian people, their land and their homeland did not cancel the presence of the Palestinian people." 1967 ".
The ministry affirmed that the US action does not negate the recognition of Palestine by 140 countries and its representation in the United Nations as an observer state, its presence in UN organizations, especially UNESCO and the Human Rights Council, in addition to its membership in more than 100 international treaties and conventions.
At the top of these organizations and agreements to which Palestine has acceded is the International Court of Justice, which the Palestinian Authority has filed a complaint against the United States regarding the transfer of its embassy to occupied Jerusalem.
The ministry considered that the current US administration is implementing what it considered the Israeli vision to destroy the two-state solution and escape from its entitlements, and write off the memory of the International Assembly on the occupation.
The Palestinians saw the latest US move as a new gift from the Trump administration to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, less than a month before the elections in Israel, and another bias towards the occupation, but in reality does not change what the resolutions of international legitimacy recognize.
The decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem was only a prelude to a deterioration in relations between the Palestinian Authority and the US administration, followed by the closure of the PLO office in Washington and the suspension of US aid to UNRWA and Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem, which the PA met with by severing contacts with the Trump administration.