The Palestinian Authority has boycotted a planned economic meeting with Israel over a pair of controversial measures by the occupying regime that ease illegal settlement construction activities in the West Bank.
In a tweet on Sunday, Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh canceled Monday’s meeting of the Joint Economic Committee that was expected to bring together Israeli and Palestinian officials.
After Israel’s decision to “accelerate the stages of settlement growth in the West Bank, and to authorize its minister of finance, Smotrich, to ratify this, we decided to boycott the meeting of the Higher Economic Committee between the two parties.” he wrote.
He added that they will “study” other measures and decisions to implement regarding their relationship with Israel.
