Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel not to reoccupy the Gaza Strip or “separate the West Bank” during a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Friday.
“We must prevent any attempt to divide or conquer the Gaza Strip into different parts. There is no military solution for Gaza”said Mahmoud Abbas.
The Palestinian Authority also rejected any plan to expel “Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” at a press conference after meeting David Cameron, who is touring the Middle East, in Ramallah.
The President briefed the British Minister on the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip.
Abbas called for an “immediate ceasefire and an end to all Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza and the West Bank,” which he described as “genocidal.”
According to Palestinian news agency WAFA, the president also stressed the importance of stopping attacks by “occupation forces and terrorist settlers in the West Bank.”
Abbas also emphasized the importance of “releasing Palestinian funds held by the Israeli occupation government.”
“Peace and security can only be achieved through a political solution based on the idea of two states, with East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian State, within the framework of international law and the Arab Peace Initiative, to end to the Israeli occupation. “he said, before calling on Cameron to recognize the state of Palestine.
David Cameron reiterated Britain’s support for providing humanitarian aid to Gaza on the second day of his visit to the region, following a meeting yesterday with senior Israeli government officials.
The British Foreign Secretary announced the allocation of 30 million pounds (34.5 million euros) in humanitarian aid to support its ‘trusted partners’, including UN agencies operating on the ground.
‘This aid is vital for the people of Gaza’Cameron said in a statement.
“This amount increases the additional aid announced by Britain to Palestinian civilians since the start of the crisis in October to 60 million.”the statement said.
Cameron expressed pride in his aid to Gaza and said a fourth British aid plane will land in Egypt next Friday.
The MNE stressed the “critical importance of protecting civilians” and added that London is “analyzing new ways to get aid to Gaza by sea, land and air.”
The war broke out when members of Hamas invaded southern Israel, killing at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking more than two hundred hostages, including infants, women and the elderly, as well as soldiers.
According to the latest report from local authorities, the Israeli bombing of Gaza, now in its seventh week, has so far killed about 15,000 people in this poor Palestinian enclave, mostly civilians, and injured 33,000, and 1.7 million people. been displaced. the UN.
Source: DN
