Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian Authority ought to govern Gaza after Israel’s conflict is over.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the US for its persevering with assist for Israel’s conflict on Gaza and urged the worldwide group to cease supplying weapons to Israel.
“This insanity can not proceed. Your complete world is answerable for what is occurring to our folks,” he instructed the 193-member Normal Meeting on Thursday, in his first tackle to the chamber since Israel launched the assault final October in response to an assault by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Abbas singled out Washington, saying it continues to offer diplomatic cowl and weapons to Israel regardless of the mounting loss of life toll in Gaza, the place Israeli assaults have killed at the least 41,534 folks since October, in line with Gaza’s Well being Ministry.
At the least 1,139 folks had been killed within the Hamas assault on southern Israel on October 7, in line with an Al Jazeera tally based mostly on Israeli statistics, and round 250 others had been taken captive.
Abbas accused the US of permitting Israel’s assault to proceed by repeatedly vetoing UN Safety Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“We remorse that the US, the most important democracy on this planet, obstructed thrice draft resolutions of the Safety Council demanding Israel to watch a ceasefire,” Abbas mentioned. “The US alone stood and mentioned, ‘No, the preventing goes to proceed,’” he mentioned.
Washington is a key Israeli ally and provides it with billions of {dollars} price of navy help yearly.
The US, together with Qatar and Egypt, has additionally been working unsuccessfully on efforts to dealer a ceasefire to finish the conflict and safe the discharge of dozens of hostages held by Palestinian teams in Gaza.
Gaza proposal
Abbas additionally laid out a 12-point proposal for Gaza after the conflict is over. He referred to as for an entire Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, with out the institution of buffer zones or the seizure of any a part of Gaza. He mentioned the Palestinian Authority, which governs elements of the occupied West Financial institution, ought to govern post-war Gaza as a part of a Palestinian state, a imaginative and prescient that Israel rejects.
“We aren’t asking for extra, however we won’t settle for any much less,” Abbas mentioned.
Abbas referred to as for a global peace convention below the auspices of the UN inside a 12 months, and reiterated requires a two-state answer to the Israel-Palestine battle.
“He made some sturdy factors, he criticised the US instantly, he actually attacked Israel instantly, he laid out some imaginative and prescient for the longer term,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara.
Nonetheless, Bishara mentioned that Abbas has been “lacking in motion” previously 12 months. He mentioned Israeli leaders had been “not going to discover a extra reasonable chief than Abbas, who accepts all their circumstances. If they’ll’t make peace with him, they don’t seem to be going to have the ability to make peace with any of his successors.”
Danny Danon, Israel’s UN ambassador, responded to Abbas’s speech inside minutes with a crucial evaluation. “Abbas spoke for 26 minutes and didn’t say the phrase ‘Hamas’ as soon as,” he mentioned.
“Solely when he stands on the UN platform does he speak about a peaceable answer,” Danon mentioned.