In presence of the Presidential Office members of Palestine National Council (PNC) in the Jordanian capital Amman today, Thursday on 10thof Dec.2020, the Political Committee held a meeting. The participants discussed a range of internal and external issues, remembering the 72nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued by the United Nations on the 10thof Dec. 1948, Emphasizing that human rights are sacred rights that cannot be violated, and foremost among them is the right of peoples to self-determination.
The meeting participants emphasized the following:
First: The permanent and unconditional right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including their right to live in freedom, justice and dignity in their fully sovereign and independent state, with Jerusalem as its capital, and Palestinians return to their land, in accordance with the relevant international legitimacy decisions, especially since the State of Palestine has ratified all covenants and charters related to international human rights, however, the one who is still suffering from the violation of these rights and covenants is the Palestinian people.
Second: The meeting participants demanded the implementation of all the recommendations contained in the reports of the independent international fact-finding missions and the recommendations of the Human Rights Council related to the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, including occupied Jerusalem.
Third: Providing international protection for the rights of the Palestinian people from Israeli occupying racist policies and measures, especially the continuation of settlement activity and settlers terror, killing children in cold blood, as happened recently with the child Ali Abu Alia, destroying property and displacing its owners, burning churches and mosques, and violations directed against Palestinian detainees, and ensuring full accountability of the occupying power (Israel) and ensure that Israel will not go unpunished.

Fourth: The meeting participants asserted that the Israeli occupation state did not stop any crime to be committed against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was an attempt by a terrorist settler to burn the Church of Gethsemane in occupied Jerusalem, which is the same church in which Jesus was arrested and tried. Therefore, PNC holds the occupation fully responsible for this crime that took place under the protection and careof the occupation.
Fifth: The attendees affirmed that the meetings that brought together President Mahmoud Abbas with His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein and President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi formed the basis for an Arab move towards adopting the initiative of the President Mahmoud Abbas in the UN Security Council to hold an international peace conference, which stimulated a wide international response.
Sixth: The meeting participants demanded the incoming US Administration to abide by international resolutions and international law that stipulated the right to self-determination for peoples and independence, end the occupation and protect the two-state solution by establishing the State of Palestine with its capital, Jerusalem, in accordance with international legitimacy decisions, which represent the core of the Arab strategy which was illustrated by the Arab Peace Initiative, and became an integral part of International resolutions adopted to bring peace to the region.