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PLO official calls for intifada and on Arab states to cut relations with the United States in response to US embassy move

Headline: “Abu Yusuf: It is impossible to return to negotiations under American auspices”
“Secretary[-General] of the Palestinian Liberation Front and PLO Executive Committee member Wasel Abu Yusuf said that if the US transfers its embassy to Jerusalem, it will express contempt for all of the international decisions, international law, and the Geneva Conventions that apply to all of the territories that were occupied in 1967.
In an interview with the press, Abu Yusuf warned against the consequences of transferring the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, because this will ignite a war in the region, and demanded that the Arab states take a stand regarding the transfer of the American embassy, including cutting relations with the American administration.
Abu Yusuf called to develop the popular resistance (term here refers to events that include violence against Israeli civilians such as rock-‎throwing, stabbings, and even shootings -Ed.)‎, and to strengthen the intifada against the occupation and all of its plans and policies, prime among them the policy of settlement and Judaizing Jerusalem, on the way to ending the occupation and rescuing our people’s rights of return, freedom, and independence.”

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