Abbas’s deputy calls Knesset vote on annexation a ‘dangerous escalation’

23 July 2025, 7:10 pm

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Secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein al-Sheikh, attends the 32nd PLO Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s deputy, Hussein al-Sheikh, says the Knesset’s vote earlier today adopting a symbolic measure in favor of Israel annexing the West Bank amounts to a “dangerous escalation that undermines the prospects for peace, stability and the two-state solution.”

Sheikh also calls the vote “a direct assault on the rights of the Palestinian people,” who ostensibly would not receive equal rights to their Israeli settler neighbors in a scenario where Jerusalem annexes the West Bank.

Urging the international community to intervene to roll back Israeli “violations,” the senior Palestinian official says countries should recognize a Palestinian state in response.