RAMALLAH, West Bank — May 20 was no different than any other day for Palestinians, without any concrete changes following the May 19 announcement of President Mahmoud Abbas that all agreements signed with the United States and Israel were being ended. The statement was made at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership to discuss options for responding to Israeli government plans to annex parts of the West Bank.

“The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Palestine are absolved, as of today, of all the agreements and understandings with the American and Israeli governments and of all the obligations based on these understandings and agreements, including the security ones,” Abbas declared at a Palestinian leadership emergency meeting in Ramallah.

“The Israeli occupation authority, as of today, has to shoulder all responsibilities and obligations in front of the international community as an occupying power over the territory of the occupied state of Palestine, with all its consequences and repercussions based on international law and international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949,” Abbas added.

Israel’s Public Broadcasting Corporation, also known as Kan, quoted an anonymous Palestinian official May 20 as saying that Abbas had ordered the heads of his services to immediately stop security coordination with Israel, specifically two figures who have regular contacts with the Israeli side: the head of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) General Authority of Civil Affairs, Hussein al-Sheikh, and the director of the Palestinian Intelligence Service, Maj. Gen. Majid Faraj. But the website said no other practical changes in this field were noted.