Protesters clash with Israeli soldiers during an anti-Israel protest at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, on May 17, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)

 

Protesters clash with Israeli soldiers during an anti-Israel protest at Huwwara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, on May 15, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)

 

Protesters clash with members of Israeli border police and Israeli soldiers during an anti-Israel protest in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 14, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)

 

A Palestinian protester confronts an Israeli soldier during clashes following a protest against the expansion of Jewish settlements and the normalization agreements of Israel with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, in the West Bank village of Asira al-Qibliya near Nablus on Sept. 18, 2020.(Photo: Xinhua)

 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that a new political path must be opened to end the Israeli occupation, official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

The Palestinians "will not agree to remain forever under the occupation, and the occupation must end in accordance with the international resolutions and under the umbrella of the international Quartet," Abbas was quoted by WAFA as saying at the end of a two-day meeting of his Fatah Party's Revolutionary Council.

The international Quartet usually refers to a group of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia that was established in Madrid in 2002 to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

During the meeting, which was held in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the 86-year-old president announced that the Palestinian Central Council, the mini parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organization, will soon hold an important meeting to make decisive and necessary decisions.

"These decisions aim to protect the Palestinian cause and the national merits that will never make a compromise to it whatever the price is," Abbas said.

Abbas had warned that if Israel rejects the world-backed two-state solution, "the Palestinians will be obliged to go for other political choices."

In October 2021, Abbas said one of the choices is to implement the UN Security Council's resolution passed in 1947, or build one democratic state on the land of historic Palestine in which the full political and civil rights of the Palestinians are gained.

The last direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, sponsored by the United States, lasted nine months and broke down in 2014 over their deep differences on the issues of borders, security, and settlement.

Since then, there have been no diplomatic ties between Israelis and Palestinians because of the Palestinian rejection of the Israeli expansion of settlements and Israeli measures against the Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

The Palestinians want to establish an independent state alongside Israel on all the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, including the entire West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.