The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas affirmed on Monday that the Paris Peace Conference is “a reproduction of the futile negotiations approach which wasted the rights of the Palestinian people and gave legitimacy to the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian land”.
Fawzi Baroum Hamas’s spokesman said in a brief statement on Monday that “it is necessary to restore respect for the Palestinian cause and insist on the rights and constants of the Palestinian people. According to Barhoum this can be achieved through a unified national strategy based on resistance to defend the Palestinian land and people and restore the usurped rights.
70 countries and international organizations participating in the Paris conference agreed on Sunday that “ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can be achieved only through the two-state solution”. They rejected violence and settlements and called for returning to the negotiating table.
This came in a closing statement on Sunday amid an Israeli rejection and a Palestinian support with the participation of 70 countries and organizations including the Arab League the Islamic Cooperation and the Quartet Committee for peace in the Middle East (the United States the European Union Russia the United Nations).
The statement called on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides to re-commit to the two-state solution and start direct and serious negotiations.
The closing statement avoided any open criticism of the plan of US president-elect Donald Trump to move the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem.
Britain announced its reservations about the outcomes of the conference claiming that it lacked the presence of representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli sides and came few days before the inauguration of the new president of the United States.
