The president of the Palestinian Authority says that should a binding international agreement be reached on the future of Palestine, he will hold presidential and primary elections.
“I am with peaceful resistance. I am for negotiations based on an international peace conference and under international auspices that would lead to a solution that will be protected by world powers to establish a sovereign Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem,” he told Reuters in an interview.
When Reuters asked if he would risk holding elections given the possibility that Hamas could win as it did in Gaza in 2006, Abbas said: “Whoever wins wins, these will be democratic elections”.
The US has led calls for Abbas and his Fatah-led PA to assume leadership of Gaza after the war comes to a close, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected these calls.
“The Palestinian Authority is not the solution,” Netanyahu wrote today on X.
Source: AlJazeera
