Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Saturday announced a cut in all ties with Israel and the United States, including security co-operation.

Abbas said the peace plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump was in “violation of the (autonomy) accords” launched in Oslo in 1993 by Israel and the Palestinians.

media_camera US President Donald Trump meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas. Picture: AFP

Israel will have to “bear responsibility as an occupying power” for the Palestinian territories, he told an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo.

The US plan would grant the Palestinians limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank, while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements there and keep nearly all of east Jerusalem.

media_camera US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: AP

The summit of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo was requested by the Palestinians, who responded angrily to the American proposal.

Mr Abbas said that he told Israel and the US that “there will be no relations with them, including the security ties” following the deal that Palestinians say heavily favours Israel.

There was no immediate comment from US or Israeli officials.

media_camera Angry Palestinian Fatah movement supporters prepare to set US and Israeli flags on fire, along with portraits of US President Donald Trump, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Gulf Arab leaders during a protest against a US peace plan. Picture: AFP

The Palestinian leader said that he’d refused to take Mr Trump’s phone calls and messages “because I know that he would use that to say he consulted us.”

“I will never accept this solution,” Abbas said. “I will not have it recorded in my history that I have sold Jerusalem.”

media_camera Palestinians demonstrator burn images of US President Donald Trump (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a demonstration. Picture: AFP

He said the Palestinians remain committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a state with its capital in east Jerusalem.

Originally published as Palestine ‘cuts all ties with US, Israel’