Barghouthi calls for new strategy to deal with Israeli occupation

AMMAN — Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi on Monday called for drawing up a new strategy to deal with the Israeli occupation.

Delivering a lecture at the University of Jordan, he said the core of the strategy should be based on popular resistance, adding that it should work to change the balance of power to support the Palestinians’ steadfastness and to pressure the international community into forcing Israel to implement UN resolutions.

Barghouthi said 10,000 houses of Palestinians in Jerusalem are threatened due to illegal settlement expansion, while 120 houses have already been demolished in the Palestinian town of Salwan to set up a garden for Jewish settlers.