The Palestinian presidency said that leaks about Washington discussing plans for the Gaza Strip with unnamed parties “will not have any legitimacy” and emphasized that “the priority is to halt the aggression against Gaza,” Anadolu Agency reports.

Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said in a statement by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, that Israel persists in “its crimes against the Palestinian people and their land, exceeding international legitimacy due to the blind and unjustified support from the American administration, which provides Israel with financial and military aid.”

Rudeina said Israel’s presence in Gaza and the West Bank is illegitimate, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who dismissed an International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on the occupation’s illegality and Palestinian self-determination.