The US State Department punished the Palestinian Authority for “undermining peace” Donald Trump News

The administration of US President Donald Trump has announced sanctions against members of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), accusing them of supporting terrorism and seeking to destabilize peace.

Thursday advertisement From the Foreign Ministry, Trump will prohibit visas to members of any of the organizers.

The declaration said: “It is the National Security Department to impose the consequences and accountability of PL and PA about not complying with their obligations and undermining the prospects for peace.”

Both the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization are acting as representatives of the Palestinian people, which is pressure to recognize a Palestinian state on the international theater.

But the Foreign Ministry said it had informed Congress that the groups had violated international agreements, including the 2002 Middle East peace obligations law.

Specifically, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization for its endeavor to “internationalize its conflict with Israel” by seeking relief in the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization also accused “continuing to support terrorism, including incitement and violence” and “providing payments and benefits to support terrorism for Palestinian terrorists and their families.”

For example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cited textbooks as a way that these groups had supported terrorism.

Israel was launching a year -old war in Gaza, and human rights experts compared it to genocide. more than 60,000 Palestinians They were killed in the military campaign of Israel, with more danger He dies from hunger As a result of the siege against the region.

Meanwhile, since the war began on October 7, 2023, the illegal Israeli settlements have increased in the occupied West Bank, as well as violence against the Palestinians there. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank in attacks, some of them by settlers, while others were by members of the Israeli armed forces.

Israel faces many international legal challenges as a result of these measures. In November 2024, for example, the International Criminal Court Arrest orders Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yuf Galet, based on accusations of war crimes in Gaza.

Other countries, Including South AfricaIt brought cases before the International Court of Justice claiming that Israel is committing the genocide in Gaza.

However, the United States was a fixed ally of Israel throughout its war in Gaza and the Israeli government provided billions of dollars in military aid.

It also opposed the efforts made in the International Court to bring Israel to calculating human rights violations, on the pretext that the United States or Israel is subject to the court of courts.

But Palestine is an observer state, not a member of the United Nations, which rules the International Court of Justice. He is a member of the Rome Law, the document established by the International Criminal Court.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes on Thursday in many Western countries, among them Franceand UK and CanadaHe pledged to recognize the state in Palestine in the next United Nations General Assembly in September.

Trump, however, has to reject Such efforts are illogical. He has also warned that recognition of a Palestinian state would be a “reward” of Hamas, a group that has fought the Palestinian Authority.

The United States has apparently released a series of sanctions in recent months to weaken individuals and entities that criticize Israel.

In June, for example, Judges who are punished for him In the International Criminal Court, which participated in the decision to issue arrest orders in favor of Netanyahu and Callant. And earlier this month, it is also Imposing a penalty on a special relationship At the United Nations, Francesca Albaniz, whose mission is to monitor the human rights status of the Palestinians.

At that time, the United States accused it of launching a “campaign of political and economic war against the United States and Israel.”

In response, United Nations Human Rights President Volcker Turk called for ending the “attacks and threats” faced by international observers.