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Intel: Palestinian Authority to suspend cooperation with CIA over US support for Israeli annexation

The secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat, says his government has suspended its contacts with the CIA over the Trump administration’s support for Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank.
Palestinian police stand guard near the main door of the defunct Palestinian Parliament in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 17, 2019. - It has been more than a decade since the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) last met in Ramallah, due to infighting between Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah and Islamists Hamas. The shiny new parliament building was opened in 2004 in central Ramallah, the Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Jerusalem. Construct

Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, told reporters today that his government has suspended its contacts with the US Central Intelligence Agency over the Trump administration’s support for Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank. 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in Ramallah on Tuesday that Washington’s support for Israel’s annexation plan frees his government from its obligations under all treaties and agreements with the United States and Israel, including those involving the Oslo peace process.

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