RAMALLAH, Palestine, July 2 (NNN-WAFA) – Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, slammed the participation of U.S. officials, in the opening of a tunnel in Silwan, in East Jerusalem.
Erekat said that, the participation of senior U.S. officials, including White House Adviser, Jason Greenblatt, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, at the tunnel inauguration ceremony is an “additional insult to international law.”
“The truth is that they are settlers trying hard to implement the settler council’s plan of annexation,” Erekat said.
“To all those who attended the Manama conference, these settlers are destroying peace,” he added.
A video of the ceremony showed that Friedman took up a hammer and broke open a tunnel, that runs under the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan.
“We should show this to all participants in Manama,” Erekat said, referring to the recent U.S.-led economic workshop in Bahrain’s capital.
He urged all Arab leaders to condemn, with the strongest terms, towards the move by Greenblatt and Friedman.
In follow-up tweets, Erekat highlighted that, over 64 weeks, Israel has killed 310 Palestinians, including 44 children.– NNN-WAFA
