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Israeli bombing is indiscriminate, targets both Muslims and Christians, says Palestinian president

The Israeli bombing is indiscriminate and targets both Muslims and Christians, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday while drawing parallels between Israel’s intensified attacks on the Gaza Strip and the 1948 Nakba, Anadolu Agency reports. “Christ’s birthplace, Bethlehem (Palestinian city in the West Bank), is experiencing unprecedented sadness,” President Abbas said, noting that the current Israeli aggression reminds him of the 1948 Nakba. The “Nakba” or “Catastrophe” is the event in which […]

today25 December 2023

International

Palestine’s Abbas calls on UN to ‘suspend’ Israel as Nakba marked

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged the United Nations to suspend Israel’s membership in the world body unless it ends its aggression against Palestinians and implements UN resolutions establishing separate Israeli and Palestinian states as well as the return of Palestinian refugees. Abbas spoke on Monday during the first official UN commemoration of the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel amid the violence of the partition […]

today16 May 2023

International

Palestinian president says to seek UN resolution to protect 2-state solution

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday Palestine will seek a UN Security Council resolution to protect the two-state solution. Addressing a conference hosted by the Arab League in the Egyptian capital Cairo on providing support to the city of Jerusalem, Abbas called on Israel to abide by UN resolutions and signed agreements with the Palestinians. "We will go to the United Nations and its different agencies, including the Security Council, […]

today13 February 2023

International News

Abbas attacks Hamas, calls US ambassador “son of a dog”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday called the US ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog” because of his support for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Abbas, speaking at a Palestinian leadership gathering, also blamed Hamas for a bomb attack last week on the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Gaza, remarks that threatened reconciliation efforts with the Islamist group. The Palestinian leader accused Ambassador […]

today20 March 2018

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