Ramallah, 17 November 2025, WAFA – The Presidency on Monday night held the Israeli government fully responsible for an Israeli Minister’s inciting remarks against President Mahmoud Abbas along with the Palestinian leadership.

The Presidency held the Israeli government responsible for National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s remarks in which he called for the arrest of President Abbas if the United Nations recognizes Palestinian statehood as well as for Israel to assassinate senior Palestinian officials.

The Presidency considered Ben Gvir’s remarks an explicit call to harm the life of the leader of the Palestinian people and members of the leadership.

It expressed strong condemnation and outright rejection of such dangerous incitement that encourages murder and constitutes a call for Israeli colonists to commit further terrorist acts against the Palestinian people, their land, and their holy sites.

It called on the US administration and the international community to pressure the Israeli government to halt its incitement campaign against the Palestinian people and their leadership, a campaign that will only breed more violence and tension and undermine the prospects of the peace process, which all Arab states and the international community, together with the US administration, are currently engaged together to revive.

K.F.