Palestine calls upon world to recognize Palestinian state

Palestine demanded the international community and decision making capitals in the world on Tuesday to immediately recognize the Palestinian state and combat terror, criticizing new Israeli settlement plans in Jerusalem.

The spokesperson of the Palestinian Presidency Nabil Abu Rdeineh said "the international workshop to combat terror will remain short and unable to achieve its goals if it doesn't address the terror against the Palestinian people."

In a statement to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Abu Rdeineh called upon the world not to keep the Palestinian cause "an open wound and thus a main threat to the regional and international security and stability."

"The fight against terrorism requires rooting out the real reasons of terrorism, including the Israeli occupation's eradication to the national rights of the legitimate Palestinian national rights and not just finding equations that don't provide a just and comprehensive solution," Abu Rdeineh added.

He warned against the latest Israeli "aggression," particularly against the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem that paved the way for a religious war that would spread in the whole world.

At the same time, Palestine condemned Israeli plans to build 1,500 settlement units in Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in statement that the Israeli plans come within ideas to impose a temporal and spatial division at al-Aqsa mosque compound and annexing large parts of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.

The ministry added that the plan reflects the Israeli government's intentions to limit the possibility of the two-state solution and impose the final status issues by military force.

The statement stressed that the settlement building in Palestine "is a breach to the international law and Geneva agreement and an advanced state of the organized state terror and disregarding the efforts to achieve the two-state solution."

The Israeli public radio reported that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given the green light to establish 1,500 unit in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood near Shufat refugee camp outside the green line.

The radio added that the Israeli municipality has approved the plan in 2010 but a diplomatic crisis between Israel and the United States has frozen the plans as they "undermined" the two-state solution.

A flaring wave of violence between the Palestinians and Israel hit the area in the beginning of October. The Palestinian death toll by Israeli fire has mounted to 88, including 18 children. Fourteen Israelis were killed in stabbing and running over attacks carried out by Palestinians.

The violence between Israel and the Palestinians sparked in mid-September with intense clashes at al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli forces. Endit