PLO central committee to call for halt to security coordination with Israel

The PLO Central Committee is expected to call to stop security coordination with Israel.

The committee has been convening in Ramallah for the past two days during which senior Fatah officials discussed a series of issues, with security coordination with Israel at the top of the agenda.

A senior Palestinian official tells the Times of Israel that the call to cease coordination comes in response to Israeli measures, including the freezing of tax funds and the continued construction in the settlements.

The source adds, however, that coordination will continue de facto until PA President Mahmoud Abbas publicly announces cessation.

In the past few days senior officials in the PLO and in Fatah have been pressuring Abbas to announce the cessation of security coordination with Israel.

At this stage the committee is expected to grant Abbas the power to make a final decision on the issue.

— Avi Issacharof