Us impose sanctions with Palestinian organizations

The US says they will impose sanctions on the organization of Palestinians, as well as the body that represents it on the international stage.

The sanctions affect both the Palestinian administration (PA), which was created by peaceful agreements in Oslo, as well as the Palestinian Liberation Organization (Plo), which was recognized after the same process as the official representative of the Palestinian people in return for its recognition and abandoning violence.

The State Department said he would refuse the visa to Plo and officials.

The terms and language of the statements suggest that this is the reaction of the Trump administration to the France-Saudi conference this week in the United Nations, which are held in support of the future two state decisions.

The meeting took place as France, the UK and Canada, who have pledged to recognize the independent, demilitarized Palestinian state at the end of this year, in some cases undergoing certain conditions.

In the US, these steps, when warning about diplomatic consequences when those who attended the UN conference, made the declarations “Antisrael”.

The State Department blamed on the I PLO of Action to “internationalize its conflict with Israel, for example, through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court (CU).”

He also referred to a number of long -standing complaints by the United States and Israel that Plo and continued to “support terrorism, including the incitement and glorification of violence (especially in textbooks), as well as providing payments and benefits in support of terrorism for Palestinian terrorists and their families.”

The Trump administration has raised sanctions on violent Israeli settlers earlier this year who killed Palestinians on the occupied West Bank.

One leading Palestinian politician called sanctions as “revenge” for the commitment to recognize Palestinian statehood an increasing number of countries.

According to, it appeared, it turned out that the mood in a statement published on Thursday.

“These companies are increasing in response to significant and consistent achievements of Palestinian diplomacy,” the statement reads.

“In particular, the recent recognition of Palestine’s state countries, a successful UN conference in New York and the historical declaration issued in it.”

Mustafa Barguti, founder of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), which is part of the Plo, said the US is oriented on the wrong side.

He said the BBC: “The Trump administration, instead of punishing war crimes in Gaza and on the West Bank, which is Israel, instead … the punishment of the victim that is the Palestinian people.”

Israel welcomed sanctions and thanked US Secretary of State Mark Rubio for introducing them.

“This is an important action (President Trump) and his administration also exposes the moral distortion of some countries that have forced to recognize the virtual Palestinian state, turning his eyes to support the terror and incitement,” said Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.

Always rejected complaints around the “wages”, saying that payments are being made for families of all Palestinian prisoners under the military occupation of Israel, many of whom do not give any proper process and are carried out in violation of the fourth in the Geneva Convention.

The Palestinians see all those detained by Israel and imprisoned his military vessels, who have 99 percent of convictions as political prisoners. French officials said last week expressed their readiness to stop these payments in response to France’s commitment to recognize the Palestinian state.

The UN Conference this week even more nominated the United States in support of the path that Israel continued the war in Gaza, which many countries criticized at the meeting.

The conference exposed a strategic vacuum that left Washington, which traditionally led diplomatic efforts to viable long -term peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

The ban on traveling to Palestinian officials can mean as a more limited wide side than a full range of financial sanctions. This is already a complicated and long -term process for the POLU officials to get visas for a trip to the US, requiring special releases that are rarely given.

It is not yet clear whether this step will affect any officials working on the Palestinian mission in the United Nations in New York. The current Palestinian Ambassador and his deputy are both US citizens.