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(11:20) PA demands US retract 'intifada is terror' statement

The Palestinian Authority is demanding the US Administration retract statements made over the weekend saying the intifada is a form of terror.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs David Satterfield said on Friday that the Palestinian intifada had "become an ongoing process of calculated terror and escalation," and blasted the Palestinian leadership for failing to act against terrorists as promised.

PA officials were reportedly stunned by the US statement.

"While Mr. Blair injected his double standards policy to the Palestinians, in small doses, Mr. David Satterfield, the US Department of State Deputy for the Middle East affairs, injected it in big doses while declaring that the 'intifada' became an organized act of terror, on which Israel reacts in provocative ways," the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, said in an editorial.

The US added anti-Israeli terrorist groups Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to a presidential executive order that instructs foreign banks and financial institutions to freeze terrorists' accounts or face American sanctions.

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