Ramallah: The head of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas, rejected any attempt to force the Palestinians of their homeland by force, reports Al Jazeera.
Speaking during the 38th summit of the African Union in the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Abba, Abbas said: “Anyone who thinks can impose a new” century affair “or move the Palestinian people of their homeland is cheated on . “
He added that “the calls to withdraw the Palestinian people from their land and to move them forcefully were only a diversion of war crimes, genocide and destruction in Gaza, as well as crimes of expansion of the expansion of the expansion of the expansion of the expansion of the expansion of regulations and try to annex the West Bank ”.
“The only place where the 1.5 million refugees living in Gaza should return is their towns and villages from which they were moved in 1948, in accordance with the 194 United Nations resolution,” he added.
Abbas also stressed that “Israeli colonial practices require urgent action by the international community and the United Nations Security Council to prevent the rise in extremist forces which seek to bury the solution to two states”.
The Palestinian pastor questions Trump’s evangelical donors in terms of Gaza
Pastor of Bethlehem Munther Isaac interviewed evangelical Christians in the United States to know if they support Trump’s push to “take control” from Gaza and expel the Palestinians, reports Al Jazeera.
“The chiefs of the churches of Jerusalem spoke with a moral clarity against the” serious threat of mass displacement in Gaza “, describing it as injustice which strikes the very heart of human dignity,” wrote Isaac in an article on x .
“The evangelical supporters of Trump who claim to take care of Christians in the Middle East take a similar position?” Do they care about what the church leaders of Jerusalem think? »»
In a statement yesterday, the chiefs of the churches of Jerusalem warned against Trump’s ethnic cleaning proposal, saying that the Palestinians in Gaza “should not be forced to exile”.
Evangelical Christians are large supporters of Israel and constitute an important part of the Republican political basis of Trump.
Hamas says that we have to “force” Israel to respect Gaza’s truce to secure the liberation of captives
Meanwhile, Hamas said the United States, a mediator of the Gaza Truce agreement, had to ensure that Israel respects the agreement to guarantee the release of captives still held in Palestinian territory, reports the ‘AFP.
“The United States must oblige the occupation to comply with the agreement if he really cares about the life of the prisoners (captives),” said Hazem Qassem, spokesperson for Hamas, in a statement published after the group released three captives earlier during the day.
