CAIRO, May 31, 2018 (WAFA) – A three-way Palestinian-Jordanian-Egyptian meeting held in Cairo on Thursday discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian areas.

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, Sameh Shukri and Ayman Safadi, respectively, held a meeting with Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and attended by heads of intelligence in the three countries.

A statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry said the meeting discussed the latest Palestinian developments, particularly the dangerous escalation that left a large number of unarmed Palestinian civilians dead.

The three officials expressed their condemnation of the Israeli measures against the unarmed Palestinian people, "who were exercising their moral and legal right to defend their land," according to a joint statement, stressing the Palestinian people‘s right to live in security and freedom and to have their own independent state on the June 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

They also stressed the necessity to preserve the legal status and character of Jerusalem as an occupied city.

They also discussed Palestinian reconciliation and the necessity of ending the division between Fatah and Hamas as well as ways to allow the Palestinian Authority to rule over Gaza in order to improve the living conditions of the enclave‘s two million residents.

They also agreed to continue talks and coordination among them to support Palestine in the international arena until a political solution is in the offing.

T.R.