Ramallah: The Palestinian factions will accelerate the implementation of the Palestinian national reconciliation deal by putting a unified political programme in place to face Israel's aggressive policies, said top officials of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Speaking to Gulf News, Tayseer Khalid, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, said the new unified Palestinian strategy will be based on popular resistance which will cover the entire West Bank territories.
"The popular resistance will reshape the Palestinian relationship with Israel... to reach total disengagement with Israel," he said.
"We will never accept to be an agent for the Israeli occupation."
The PLO reiterated on Thursday its unchanging demands for the resumption of peace negotiations with Israel including an immediate halt to the Israeli colonial activities in the Palestinian Territories including occupied East Jerusalem. It also called for the endorsement of the two-state solution with the 1967 borders, and with clear references and timetables, warning the Israelis against attempting to undermine the PLO's credibility.
Khalid also termed as "nonsense" a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz on Wednesday that the Palestinian leadership submitted an offer to the Mideast Quartet highlighting its readiness to resume peace talks without a freeze on colonies, and only demanded the release of 100 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli before the Oslo Accords were signed in 1994.
