Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Palestinian Leader Abbas turns away attempts to displace Palestinians


(MENAFN) On Saturday, Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas strongly turned away any efforts to displace the Palestinian people from their mother country.

Abbas has stated at the 38th African Union Summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. "Anyone who thinks they can impose a new 'Deal of the Century' or displace the Palestinian people from their homeland is deluded.”

Abbas emphasized that “calls to remove the Palestinian people from their land and forcefully displace them were merely a diversion from the war crimes, genocide, and destruction in Gaza, as well as the crimes of settlement expansion and attempts to annex the West Bank.”

"The only place where the 1.5 million refugees living in Gaza should return to is their cities and villages from which they were displaced in 1948, in accordance with United Nations Resolution 194," he explained furthermore.

And Abbas pointed out that “Israeli colonial practices require urgent action from the international community and the UN Security Council to prevent the rise of extremist forces that seek to bury the two-state solution.”

Additionally, he demanded “support for the international peace conference scheduled to take place at the UN in mid-June.”

As Abbas stated, the summit focuses on mobilizing global hard work to earn international acknowledgement for Palestine, protect full UN membership, as well as applying the two-state solution in accordance with international law.

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