THE Palestinian Authority is to suspend all agreements with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas announced last night. 

Following an emergency meeting with Palestinian Liberation Organisation leaders in Ramallah, Mr Abbas said the authority would form a committee charged with cancelling all deals with Israel. However, no timeline was given. 

“We announce the leadership’s decision to stop implementing the agreements signed with the Israeli side,” Mr Abbas said in a televised address in the occupied West Bank. 

“We will not bow to dictates and imposing a fait accompli by force in Jerusalem and elsewhere. 

“There is no peace, no security and no stability in our region and the whole world without our Palestinian people achieving their full rights.

“Our hands have been and are still extended to a just, comprehensive and lasting peace. But this does not mean that we accept the status quo or surrender to the measures of the occupation.”

Mr Abbas’s statement came in the same week that the Israeli military began demolishing Palestinian homes in the East Jerusalem district of Sur Baher. 

Israel claimed that the homes, which stood in Palestinian Authority-controlled territory, violate a 2011 military order forbidding construction within a buffer zone extending 330 yards from the country’s illegal apartheid wall. 

While making around 350 people homeless, Israeli Defence Force soldiers also brutally attacked Palestinian and international protesters who were peacefully demonstrating against the demolitions. Many needed hospital treatment.

In his speech, Mr Abbas also took aim at US President Donald Trump — who unilaterally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel last year, despite being urged not to do so by most of the world’s governments — and his so-called “deal of the century,” an ill-defined plan to resolve the Israel-Palestine “conflict.”

“We will not surrender, we will not coexist with the occupation and we will not deal with the deal of the century or the slap of the century or the deal of shame – all names for one title,” the Palestinian leader said.

“Palestine and Jerusalem are not for sale and bargain. They are not a real estate deal in a real estate company.”