Today, Thursday, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, President Mahmoud Abbas discussed with Jordanian King Abdullah II ways to stop the comprehensive aggression against our Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

During his meeting with the Jordanian King, President Abbas called for an immediate halt to the comprehensive aggression against our people, the provision of medical and relief humanitarian aid, the provision of water and electricity, and the opening of urgent humanitarian corridors in the Gaza Strip.

The President warned of the danger of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip stopping working due to running out of fuel, which portends a real disaster for all health and humanitarian services.

President Abbas stressed the need to move to political action to end the occupation and achieve peace, stressing the rejection of practices related to killing civilians or abusing them on both sides, calling for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees, and emphasizing the need to stop settler terrorism against our people in Palestinian cities, villages and camps in the West Bank. Western countries, and to stop the extremists’ incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which are causing an escalation of the situation, reiterating the importance of obliging Israel to respect the historical and legal situation in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, while emphasizing the importance of the Hashemite custodianship of the holy places and providing what is necessary to prevent the continuation of attacks on them.

The President thanked and appreciated His Majesty King Abdullah II for his firm stances and support for Jordan and its standing by the Palestinian people and their just cause.

The President said: We affirm the policy of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, which rejects violence and adheres to international legitimacy, peaceful popular resistance, and political action as a path to achieving our national goals of freedom and independence, leading to ending the occupation and embodying the independence of our Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders.

President Abbas's meeting with the Jordanian King comes within the framework of the efforts made by the Palestinian leadership around the clock to stop the destructive "war", and within the framework of coordinating positions between Palestine and Jordan.

His Excellency is scheduled to meet tomorrow, Friday, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Head of the General Intelligence Service, Major General Majid Faraj, the President’s Diplomatic Advisor, Majdi Al-Khalidi, and the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Jordan, Atallah Khairi.