RAMALLAH, Sept 8 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, yesterday called on the international community, to pressure Israel to allow the holding of elections in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and allow Palestinian citizens there to participate in the elections by casting their votes and running as electoral candidates.
Ishtaye made the call during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, with the Norwegian special envoy to the Middle East, Hilde Haraldstad, according to an official statement.
He urged the international community to compel the Israeli regime, to stop its piracy of Palestinian money and all illegal deductions of Palestinian tax revenue.
Ishtaye briefed Haraldstad on the escalated measures taken by the Israeli regime, particularly the extrajudicial killings, arrests, the daily incursions into al-Aqsa mosque and the Palestinian territories, and confiscation of lands belonging to the Palestinians, for settlement expansion.
They also discussed the donors’ conference, scheduled for Oct, in New York, and ways to make it a success, so as to mobilise political support and come up with an international vision, to preserve the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
