GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In the final statement of its regular session, issued May 4, the Palestinian National Council (PNC) instructed the Executive Committee of the PLO to suspend recognition of Israel until the latter recognizes the State of Palestine along the borders of June 4, 1967, revokes the East Jerusalem annexation decision and stops its settlement activity.

While the PNC stressed that the relationship between the Palestinians and Israel is based on conflict, it called for the need to implement the decisions the PLO Central Committee took in its last two sessions of 2015 and 2018 in order to stop all forms of security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), and put an end to Palestinian economic dependence on Israel, which has been entrenched by the Paris Protocol of 1994, all the while boycotting Israeli products.

In its statement, the PNC also highlighted the need for the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestinian state institutions to start implementing the PNC and Central Committee decisions, and announced that the transitional period and obligations stipulated by the agreements signed in Oslo in 1993, Cairo in 1994 and Washington in 1995 are no longer valid.

These agreements were deemed to be no longer valid because of Israel's noncompliance and violation thereof by building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and seizing Palestinian territories.