(Ma'an News-PA) All rallies in support of the Palestinian bid for UN membership in September will be confined to areas where the Palestinian Authority has security control, thus avoiding confrontation with the Israeli army, high-ranking PA sources told Ma'an Thursday. "Ramallah rallies will be carried out in Manara square, Bethlehem rallies will be carried out in the yard of the Nativity Church and so on," the sources said. The locations are in the heart of urban areas that were designated "Area A" under the 1993 Oslo agreement - and thus formally under full Palestinian Authority civil and security control.
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