By Xinhua
Ramallah : The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) would continue peace talks with Israel as it was an international demand, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement said on Thursday.
“There is an international insistence on the negotiations so the Palestinians can open the Israeli aggressions, including the settlements, for discussions,” Ahmed Abdel Rahman told Voice of Palestine radio.
But the spokesman underlined that the international pressure “fails to force Israel to stop the building of settlements and its attacks on the Palestinian people.”
The PNA is frustrated as the talks which revived during a U.S.-hosted Annapolis conference on Mideast peace last November, didn’t make good progress due to Israel’s continued expansion of settlements in West Bank.
Palestinian opposition factions, mainly Hamas, calls on the PNA to stop the talks with Israel following an Israeli military escalation in Gaza Strip which left more than 20 people dead in the past couple of days.