zionist israel threatens PA over plan to join UN agencies

The Israeli regime has threatened the Palestinian Authority not to go ahead with its decision to join UN agencies.

“If they are now threatening [to go to UN institutions], they must know something simple: They will pay a heavy price,” Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau said on Wednesday.

The minister threatened that the Tel Aviv regime would also annex more Palestinian land and hurt Palestinians economically.

Landau’s remarks come one day after Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas signed a request to join several UN agencies in an effort to win more recognition from the world body.

“The Palestinian leadership has unanimously approved a decision to seek membership of 15 UN agencies and international treaties, beginning with the Fourth Geneva Convention,” Abbas said on Tuesday after signing the demand during a meeting in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

The Palestinians agreed to stop seeking membership of international bodies and pursuing legal action against Israel during the nine months of talks, launched in July 2013. Israel, in return, agreed to free 104 Palestinian inmates in four groups.

Abbas said the decision was made because Israelis failed to keep their promise as the Israeli regime has refused to release the final batch of 26 prisoners. The group was due to be freed by the end of March.

The last round of negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli regime broke down in 2010 after Tel Aviv refused to halt its settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.