The Palestinian leadership is studying suspending peace accords with Israel, owing to standstill in negotiations, officials said Saturday.

Ahmed Majdalani, a member of the leading committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said giving up commitment to the deals "is one of the serious options being examined."

"Most probably, we will abandon the Palestinian obligations that resulted from these accords," Majdalani told Xinhua. He accused Israel of "denying all agreements and keeping violating them."

In 1993, the Oslo peace deal between the PLO and Israel enabled the creation of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and established sort of autonomy.

Today, the PNA doesn't see Israel committed to the two principles of the agreement: mutual and common cooperation when implementing the deals on the ground. Therefore, the PNA doesn't have legal and political mandate in the territories it rules, Majdalani said.

He blamed checkpoints and other Israeli procedures, including military, on the ground.

Also Saturday, a London-based Arabic newspaper reported that a day will come on the Palestinians to reconsider their agreements with Israel.

The move aims at pressing Israel to obtain recognition of a Palestinian statehood, Yasser Abed Rabbo, a PLO official, told the newspaper, Al-Hayyat.

During the Arab League meetings in Libya this month, President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of canceling Oslo accords and all ensuing deals. The meeting aimed to assess the negotiations that stopped a few weeks after the United States re-launched them in early September.

The Arab nations gave Israel a one-month ultimatum to stop plans to resume building Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

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