Hamas will have no function in post-war Gaza: Palestinian leader Abbas backs Trump strategy at UNGA

The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, utilized his platform at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to condemn Israel’s offense in Gaza, describing it as a “war criminal offense”. In his address to the global occasion in New York on Thursday, Abbas likewise turned down any concept of Palestinians deserting their land.

Abbas attended to the event essentially while he remained in the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Remarkably, Abbas needed to provide the virtual address since the United States had actually rejected him a delegation visa. In his address, Abbas likewise knocked Hamas’s October 7 attack in southern Israel, stating, “These actions do not represent the Palestinian individuals.”

He made it clear that the Palestinian Authority wanted to take obligation for Gaza which Hamas would have no part in governing the enclave after the war. Abbas gotten in touch with Hamas to set its arms. “We restate that we do not desire an armed state,” he stated.

Abbas makes it clear Palestinians will not leave their land

Abbas, whose organisation administers part of the West Bank and considers itself the rightful federal government of a future Palestinian state. In speech after speech, numerous countries revealed assistance for the Palestinian cause. Abbas thanked the countries for identifying the state of Palestine and kept in mind that his authority had actually acknowledged Israel’s”right to exist”as early as 1988 and 1993.

In his speech, Abbas explained Israel’s conduct in the area as a”genocide.” The PA president made it clear that no matter just how much suffering the Palestinians sustained, they would stay in Gaza and reconstruct their land. “It will not break our will to make it through,” he stated. “Palestine is ours.”

In action to his address, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar turned down Abbas’s remarks, explaining them as empty rhetoric focused on calming the West. In a post on X, Saar composed, in part, “Israel can not be tricked once again.” The workplace of the Israeli prime minister likewise published on social networks: “The outrageous capitulation of some leaders to Palestinian horror does not obligate Israel in any method. There will be no Palestinian state.”

Abbas has actually been acting as the president of the Palestinian Authority considering that 2005, despite the fact that he was chosen to the workplace for just a four-year term. He has actually been understood for consistently postponing elections that may unseat him, focusing power in his workplace, sidelining competitors and enabling security forces to punish critics.