RAMALLAH, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeinah said on Saturday that the U.S. Middle East plans that ignore Palestinians' rights and the establishment of the Palestinian state will lead to a dead end, official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Abu Rudeinah made the remarks as U.S. President Donald Trump's senior advisor Jared Kushner and special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt are touring the Middle East to meet Arab and Israeli officials.
The U.S. "should abandon the illusion of creating false facts and falsifying history to make the deal possible," he said.
"A solution to the conflict is only possible with the Palestinian people and their national leadership, supported by their Arab brethren as a whole and their governments," the spokesman explained.
Meanwhile, Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said in an interview with official Palestinian radio station Voice of Palestine that the U.S. is now trying to annul the role of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, after recognizing occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital last December and moving its embassy to the disputed holy city in May.
On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.S. envoys during their meeting that he was ready to meet the Gaza's needs through the Palestinian Authority's tax and customs revenues Israel collects on its behalf.
"The goal behind this is to sustain the coup and keep Gaza separated from the West Bank, while bringing down the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank," said Erekat.
The Palestinian Authority has repeatedly said the U.S. "deal of the century" for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict falls way short of their expectations for a lasting and just peace settlement.
