Palestine vows long-term resistance against U.S.-backed Arab normalization with Israel

Source: Xinhua| 2020-09-13 18:06:22|Editor: huaxia

Palestinians wave Palestinian flags as they gather to celebrate a newly made reconciliation deal between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Hamas to end their seven-year split, in Gaza City, on April 23, 2014. (Xinhua File photo)

Palestinians Sunday vowed long-term popular resistance against U.S.-sponsored normalization between Israel and Arab states, as UAE and Bahrain are slated to ink peace deals with Israel on Sept. 15 in Washington.

RAMALLAH, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinians on Sunday vowed a long-term popular resistance against the U.S.-sponsored normalization between Israel and Arab states.

The vow was made in the first press statement issued after midnight by the Unified National Command of Popular Resistance, which was formed after a meeting between the secretary generals of several Palestinian factions including the Islamic Hamas movement, ruler of the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

The new Command called on the Palestinian people to consider the upcoming Sept. 15 a day of widespread rejection of the "shameful normalization."

Bahrain is scheduled to sign a U.S.-brokered normalization agreement with Israel on Sept. 15 in Washington, during which a similar deal between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel will also be inked.

The statement said the comprehensive popular struggle will continue until the Palestinian independence is achieved, calling on Palestinian, Muslim and Arab diaspora to demonstrate on Sept. 15 in front of the embassies of the United States, Israel, the UAE and Bahrain to denounce the normalization agreements.

Bahrain is the second Gulf Arab state that has announced normalization with Israel in less than a month after the UAE did so on Aug. 13. Egypt and Jordan signed their peace treaties with Israel in 1979 and in 1994 respectively.

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