“We will not leave, we will not leave, we will not leave. Palestine is our homeland. It is the land of our fathers and grandfathers, and it will remain ours”, said the president at the beginning of his speech before the plenary session of that United Nations body, at its headquarters in New York.
If anyone has to leave, it is the usurpers and occupiers, said the ruler in reference to Israel.
Abbas denounced the ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip, which he described as genocide and as one of the most atrocious crimes of our time. More than 41,000 Palestinians have died since the attacks began in October last year, thousands more remain under the rubble and more than 100,000 have been injured, the leader said.
Hundreds of entire Palestinian families were wiped out and removed from the civil registry, he said.
The Palestinian leader said the bombs were accompanied by illnesses, epidemics and a lack of medicine, water and food.
More than two million Palestinians were displaced many times from their homes in this coastal enclave in search of safety from the army operations, he said.
“Stop this crime, stop it now. Stop killing children and women. Stop the war of extermination. Stop sending weapons to Israel. This madness cannot continue,” he demanded.
Abbas said that the world is responsible for the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. The president accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of taking advantage of the Hamas attack on October 7 to “launch a comprehensive genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.”
Israel reoccupied that territory and completely destroyed it, rendering it uninhabitable, he warned.
He also criticized the United States for blocking UN Security Council resolutions on three occasions that demanded an immediate ceasefire.
During his speech, the top Palestinian leader presented a 12-point proposal for the day after the war and to advance to a peace process.
Among them he cited a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire, greater entry of humanitarian aid to the Strip, the complete military withdrawal of Israel, international protection for the Palestinian people and the reconstruction of that territory.
Added to this, he indicated, is the entry of Palestine into the UN as a full member, the end of the occupation of the West Bank in 12 months and the holding of an international peace conference under the auspices of the United Nations, which promotes the two-state solution.
Abbas also called for global support for his planned visit to Gaza, which the Israeli authorities refuse to allow.
“I ask you to support this decision through an international resolution in this regard and to put pressure on the occupation government so that it does not obstruct our effort,” he stressed.
Palestine will be liberated and our people will continue their lives in the land of their fathers and grandfathers, he concluded.
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