Palestinian Authority calls for PLO to be removed from US terror list

The Palestinian Authority has called for the US administration to remove the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) from its list of foreign terrorist organisations.

The US State Department has said it is delisting five groups, including the Jewish Kach movement, as part of a routine procedure to remove inactive organisations from the FTO database in accordance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

“As required by the INA, the Department reviews FTO designations every five years to determine if the circumstances that were the basis of the designation have changed in such a manner as to warrant a revocation,” the State Department said.

The PLO remain on the list. Hussein Al-Sheikh, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said:

"We expressed our astonishment and our absolute rejection of the persistence of this unjust classification of a people under occupation at a time when the Kach terrorist organisation is removed from this list."

Meanwhile, as reported in the Guardian, the US has also decided not to take the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) off the list, according to the Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett.

In a statement, Naftali Bennett said he had been informed by the US president that he would not be ceding to the Iranian demand that IRGC’s terrorist status be lifted.

However, Washington has not confirmed it has made a decision on the IRGC.