Palestinian authority, OLP officials refused visas we in the midst of new sanctions
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The United States has announced that it would impose sanctions on officials of the Palestinian Authority (PA) only a few days after having disowned a United Nations Conference during which several countries have agreed that the AP should resume Gaza. In addition, members sanctioned by the United States of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The State Department declared to the Congress that neither the AP nor the PLO act in accordance with the law on the conformity of the commitments of the OLP in 1989 (PLOCCA) and the law of 2002 on the commitments of peace in the Middle East (MEPCA). Following the sanctions, the members of the PLO and the AP officials are refused visas.
“It is in our national security interests to impose the consequences and to hold the PLO and the AP responsible for not complying with their commitments and to undermine the perspectives of peace,” said a statement from the State Department.
The PLCCA Declares that any dialogue between the United States and the PLO is “subject to the recognition by the OLP of the right of Israel to exist, its acceptance of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council 242 and 338, and its abstention and the renunciation of all acts of terrorism.”
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The State Department has announced sanctions against officials of the Palestinian Authority and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (Mohammed Torokman)
The Mepca Building on the Plocca by demanding the imposition of sanctions if the president “determines that these entities have not complied with certain commitments made by entities and other purposes”.
The State Department declared that the AP and OLP had violated the Plocca and the MEPCA by “initiating and supporting actions in international organizations which undermine and contradict previous commitments” and “taking measures to internationalize its conflict with Israel”.
The president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas holds a management meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on April 23, 2025. (Reuters / Mohammed Torokman)
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He also condemned the AP and the PLO to support terrorism, incited and glorify violence, and provide payments and advantages to the families of Palestinian terrorists. Israel often refers to the policy to pay the families of terrorists as “compensation for the ice cube”.
The Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar congratulated the United States for issuing the sanctions and thanked Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the State Department for their “moral clarity”.
“The AP must be held responsible for its policy being” remuneration “for terrorists and their families and Incituration against Israel In his schools, his textbooks, his mosques and his media, “Sa’ar wrote on X.” This important action by (President Donald Trump) and his administration also exposes the moral distortion of certain countries which took place to recognize a virtual Palestinian state while closing their eyes on its support for terrorism and incentive. “”
In this composite image, Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks in the left panel and the UN special rapporteur for the territory of Palestine Francesca Albanese speaks to the UN in the right panel. (Getty Images)
The announcement of the sanctions comes only a few days after several countries signed an agreement at a conference co -chaired by France and Saudi Arabia. The “New York Declaration” calls on Hamas to disarm and abandon control of the Gaza Strip at the AP, something Israel and the United States have rejected.
In addition, earlier this month, the United States announced sanctions against the special rapporteur of the Francesca Albanese on its “biased and malicious activities”.
“Albanese spit out shameless anti-Semitism, expressed his support for terrorism and open up contempt for the United States, Israel and the West. This bias was obvious over the duration of his career, in particular by recommending to the ICC, without a legitimate basis, arrest terms to target the Israeli Prime Minister of Benjamin and the former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant” Rubio in a declaration.
