Palestinian Authority Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki says Ramallah welcomes the agreement between Turkey and Israel “in principle,” but he asks Ankara to work with Ramallah on matters concerning the Palestinians.
Speaking to the Palestinian Ma’an news agency, al-Maliki says the PA wouldn’t interfere with the terms of the agreement between Israel and Turkey, but says the aspects of the deal relating to the Palestinians “were of core interest to the Palestinian leadership” and Ramallah should have been kept in the loop.
While Ramallah welcomes Turkey’s plans to build a desalinization plant in Gaza, Maliki says the PA is already building a €400 million plant in Gaza sponsored by the European Union.
“If Turkey wants to help,” Maliki says, “it should all be part of the national plan for the development of all the Palestinian territories, and it must be done through full coordination with the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian government.”
— Dov Lieber
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