Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this Sunday, in the presence of the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, denounced the genocide to which the Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected and called for “an immediate end” to the destructive war in the Gaza Strip. region.
“We meet again in extremely difficult circumstances. I have no words to describe the war of genocide, the destruction that our Palestinian people in Gaza are suffering at the hands of the Israeli war machine, without taking into account the norms of international law,” said Abbas, quoted by the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Palestinian leader and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met this Sunday at the headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority (ANP) in Ramallah. This was the first time the head of US diplomacy has traveled to the occupied West Bank since the war began. war, on October 7.
This meeting was not on the agenda and had not been previously announced because, according to AP, it ended without explanations.
On October 7, Hamas – classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel – carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory, killing more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and taking more than 200 hostages . whom he holds captive in the Gaza Strip.
Israel then began strong retaliation against that poor Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007, with cuts to supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel and daily bombardments, followed by a ground offensive that completed the siege on Thursday. Gaza.
Source: DN
