Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said during a meeting of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) that that PA “Wants to reach a diplomatic peace solution. We want to distance the risk of destruction and loss that will grow in all directions as a result of this situation.”
Abbas added that “We do not want a military insurgency between us and Israel. We do not want that. All of our instructions to our defense forces, youths and nations are that we do not want an insurgency, but that we do want to defend ourselves.”