The US announced that it would impose sanctions on officials of Palestinian Authority (PA), only a few days after it had rejected a conference of the United Nations in which several countries agreed that the PA would take over Gaza. Moreover, the American sanctioned members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the congress that neither the PA nor the PLO act in accordance with the PLO obligations Compliance Act of 1989 (PLOCCA) and the Midden -East Peace Copments Act of 2002 (MEPCA). As a result of the sanctions, PLO members and PA officials will be refused visas.
“It is in our national security interests to impose consequences and to keep the PAP responsible for non -compliance with their obligations and undermining the prospects for peace,” said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The PLOCCA States Each dialogue between the US and the PLO is “depending on the recognition of the PLO of the existence of Israel, the acceptance of the resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations 242 and 338, and the abstinence of and renunciation of all terrorist deeds.”
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against officials of the Palestinian Authority and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (Mohammed Torokman)
The Mepca Builds on the PLOCCA by requiring the imposition of sanctions if the president “stipulates that these entities have not complied with certain obligations of the entities, and for other purposes.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that both the PA and the Plo de Plocca and MEPCA violate by “initiating and supporting actions with international organizations that undermine and contradict previous obligations” and “take action to internationalize his conflict with Israel.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds leadership meeting in Ramallah, on the West Banker, April 23, 2025. (Reuters/Mohammed Torokman)
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It also condemned the PA and PLO for supporting terrorism, the incitement and glorifying of violence and the provision of payments and benefits to families of Palestinian terrorists. Israel often refers to the policy to pay the families of terrorists as ‘pay-for-lay’.
The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar praised the US for issuing the sanctions and thanked State Secretary Marco Rubio and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their ‘moral clarity’.
“De PA must be held responsible for his current policy of ‘Pay-For-Lay’ for terrorists and their families and incentive against Israel At his schools, textbooks, mosques and media, “wrote Sa’ar on X.” This important action through [President Donald Trump] And his administration also exposes the moral distortion of certain countries that recognized a virtual Palestinian state and at the same time climb an eye for support for terror and incentive. “
In this compound image, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio looks in the left panel and special reportor of the UN for the territory of Palestine Francesca Albanese speaks at the UN in the right panel. (Getty Images)
The announcement of sanctions comes only a few days after different countries have signed an agreement at a conference that is co-chairman of France and Saudi Arabia. The “New York Statement” calls on Hamas to disarm control of the Gaza Strip to the PA and to surrender to the PA, something that both Israel and the US have rejected.
In addition, the US announced sanctions earlier this month against special report from the UN -Special Francesca Albanese about its ‘biased and malignant activities’.
“Albanese has played unabashedly anti -Semitism, expressed support for terrorism and open contempt for the United States, Israel and the West. That bias has been clear about the wingspan of her career, including the recommendation of Minister of Defense, the ICC, without a legitimate base, Benjammenjambogen said arrest mixtures Benjamin minister of Defense had, “Rubio said in a legitimate basis.
