The United States say that the Palestinian authority does not allow President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian officials to travel to New York for a meeting of the United Nations world leaders, where various American allies will recognize a Palestinian state.
An official from the US Department of Foreign Affairs said that Abbas and about 80 other Palestinians would be affected by the decision to refuse visas and withdraw from members of the Parbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority in West Bank (PA).
The PA currently has no authority in Gaza and the administrative center is located in Ramallah City on the occupied West Bank.
Abbas was planning to travel to New York for the annual UN alternative meeting at a high level at the UN headquarters in Manhattan.
Abbas’s office said it was surprised by the visa decision and argued that it had violated the “head office agreement” of the UN.
According to the 1947 agreement, the US is generally obliged to allow access to foreign diplomats to the UN in New York. However, Washington has said that it can deny visas for safety, extremism and reasons of foreign policy.
In a statement, the ministry repeated the years of the American and Israeli accusations that the Pa and PLO had not succeeded in rejecting “terrorism” while insisting on “one -sided recognition” of a Palestinian state.
Palestinian officials reject such allegations and say that decades of interviews have not ended in the Israeli occupation and secure an independent Palestinian state.
“(IT) is in our national security interests to keep the PLO and PA responsible for non -compliance with their obligations and for undermining the prospects for peace,” the Department said.
Governments usually send large delegations to the meeting. The limitations can lead to an impoverished Palestinian presence on top, where different countries have promised to formally explain their recognition of a Palestinian state.
The recognition of Western powers reflect frustration with the war of Israel in Gaza, who killed tens of thousands of people. It also reflects anger with the Israeli settlement building on the occupied West Bank, seen as the heart of a potential Palestinian state.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), supported by the United Nations, has warned that a “sausage-case hunger shed scenario” unfolds for part of Gaza’s population of 2.1 million.
Earlier this month, the IPC determined that famine took place in Gaza City And would probably spread to other parts of Gaza. The group said that 514,000 people experience famine, with the number that is expected to rise to 641,000 at the end of September.
Israël describes widespread hunger who has been documented by aid organizations as “a Hamas-strict hunger campaign”, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explains: “There is no hunger policy in Gaza, and there is no hunger in Gaza.”
In a statement to SBS News earlier this month, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said: “The IDF strongly rejects the claim of intentional starving of the civilian population.”
Stéphane Dujarric, the UN spokesperson, said that the UN would discuss the visa issue with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “in accordance with the UN headquarters agreement between the UN and the US”.
The US also refused to spend a visa on PLO leader Yasser Arafat in 1988. The UN general meeting met in Geneva that year instead of New York so that he could tackle it.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it demanded that the PA and PLO “reject consistent terrorism”, including the deadly Hamas attack in October 2023.
In June, Abbas, the Palestinian president, wrote a letter to the French president in which he condemned the Hamas attack and founded hostages by the militant group that was released.
The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar welcomed the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A Palestinian state is recognized by 147 of the 193 UN member states. The Palestinians currently have the status of the observer at the UN, the same as the holy chair (Vatican).
The Palestinians have long searched a state on the Israeli West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as the capital. The US says that a Palestinian state can only be determined by direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.
It was a position shared by Australia until August, when Prime Minister Albanian announced That Australia would join other countries when recognizing a Palestinian state.
The United States consistently criticized countries for the recognition of a Palestinian state, and in 2024 it pronounced a veto for a resolution of the UN safety council that Palestine would have granted full UN membership.
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