Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian Authority ought to run Gaza after the Israeli battle ends.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the USA’ continued help for Israel’s battle in Gaza and urged the worldwide group to cease supplying weapons to Israel.
“This insanity can’t proceed. The whole world is answerable for what occurs to our individuals,” he mentioned.
Abbas singled out Washington, saying the USA continues to supply diplomatic cowl and weapons to Israel regardless of the rising demise toll in Gaza.
In accordance with Al Jazeera, primarily based on Israeli statistics, Hamas launched an assault on southern Israel on October 7, killing a minimum of 1,139 individuals and capturing about 250 others.
Abbas accused the USA of repeatedly vetoing UN Safety Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and permitting Israel to proceed its assaults.
“We remorse that the USA, the world’s largest democracy, blocked 3 times a Safety Council draft decision calling on Israel to look at a ceasefire,” Abbas mentioned. “Solely the USA stood up and mentioned, ‘No, the combating will proceed,'” he mentioned.
Washington is a key ally of Israel, offering it with army support value billions of {dollars} annually.
The US, together with Qatar and Egypt, has additionally been working to dealer a ceasefire to finish the battle and safe the discharge of dozens of hostages held by Palestinian teams in Gaza.
Gaza proposal
Abbas additionally put ahead 12 solutions for Gaza after the battle. He referred to as on Israel to utterly withdraw its troops from Gaza with out establishing a buffer zone or occupying any a part of Gaza. He mentioned the Palestinian Authority, which governs elements of the occupied West Financial institution, ought to run post-war Gaza as a part of a Palestinian state, however Israel has rejected that imaginative and prescient.
“We won’t ask for extra, however we won’t settle for much less,” Abbas mentioned.
Abbas referred to as for a world peace convention to be convened below the auspices of the United Nations inside a yr and reiterated his name for a two-state answer to the Palestinian-Israeli battle.
“He made some sturdy factors, he instantly criticized the USA, he actually instantly attacked Israel, and he put ahead some visions for the long run,” mentioned Marwan Bishara, senior political analyst at Al Jazeera.
Nonetheless, Bishara mentioned Abbas had been “absent” over the previous yr. He mentioned Israeli leaders “won’t discover a extra average chief than Abbas, who accepted all their circumstances. If they can’t reconcile with him, they can’t reconcile with any of his successors.”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, made a important evaluation of Abbas’s speech inside minutes. “Abbas spoke for 26 minutes and by no means as soon as mentioned the phrase ‘Hamas,'” he mentioned.
“Solely when he stands on the platform of the United Nations will he discuss peaceable options,” Danon mentioned.
