The State Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). This comes as U.S. officials arrived in Israel to hold further cease-fire talks.
“It is in our national security interests to impose consequences and hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments and undermining the prospects for peace,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement.
The department further said that the PA and PLO aren’t “in compliance with their commitments under the PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989,” as well as the Middle East Peace Commitments Act of 2002, because they have taken “actions to internationalize its conflict with Israel, such as through the International Criminal Court [ICC],” and other means….