Abbas warns of unspecified 'tough steps' against Israel, US
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday told the PLO parliament, which was meeting for its first full session since the 1990s, that he plans to take unspecified "tough steps" soon against Israel and the United States.
Abbas told hundreds of delegates that he is sticking to his rejection of any U.S. proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal following the Trump administration's recognition in December of contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital and a decision to move the U.S. Embassy there in mid-May.
"This is completely unacceptable," he told the Palestinian National Council members during the opening of their four-day meeting in the West Bank.