On the 59th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah party, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, said that the Palestinian people will not accept the displacement of their land, the Wafa news agency reported this Sunday (31).
“Today, our steadfast Palestinian people are subjected to a comprehensive war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem, with the aim of liquidating our national cause and transforming it into a humanitarian cause, in a repeat of the 1948 Nakba ,” Abbas said in the report.
The Nakba, or “catastrophe,” was when an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in what is now Israel.
“But we tell them that the more their aggression and terrorism increase, the stronger, more determined and more determined our people will become in adhering to their land and their legitimate national rights,” Abbas said.
Thousands of internally displaced people
Israel has called for the evacuation of more residents as it expands its ground offensive into parts of central and southern Gaza. The United Nations warns that some 150,000 people in these areas — many already internally displaced from the northern parts of the enclave — have “nowhere to go.”
Around 100,000 more people recently flocked to Rafah, on the southern tip of Gaza, which is already the most densely populated part of the territory, according to the UN. Civilians there say conditions are terrible.
Abbas is the leader of the Palestinian Authority, a government body with limited autonomy in the West Bank and a separate entity from Hamas, which controls Gaza and is at war with Israel.
The Palestinian Authority was established in the 1993 Oslo Accords, a peace pact between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in which the PLO gave up armed resistance against Israel in exchange for promises of an independent Palestinian state.
Hamas took control of Gaza after a brief civil war with Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction that is the backbone of the Palestinian Authority.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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