Mahmoud Abbas, the head of state of the Palestinian Authority, which regulates the West Bank however not the Gaza Strip, has actually contacted the worldwide neighborhood to quit sending out tools to Israel.
“Stop this crime. Stop it now. Stop killing children and women. Stop the genocide. Stop sending weapons to Israel. This madness cannot continue. The entire world is responsible for what is happening to our people in Gaza and the West Bank,” he claimed.
He claimed Palestinians were being “subjected to one of the most heinous crimes of our era, it is the crime of a full-scale war, of genocide, that Israel is perpetrating.”
The International Court of Justice is exploring a situation submitted by South Africa affirming that Israel is devoting “genocidal acts” in its Gaza offensive, breaching the 1948 UNGenocide Convention Israel has actually highly refuted the allegation.
Abbas claimed the battle had actually eliminated greater than 40,000 individuals in Gaza alone and harmed 10s of hundreds of others. The dispute started after Hamas- led militants introduced a fear assault versus Israel on October 7, eliminating some 1,200 individuals and taking about 250 captives.
“Hundreds of Palestinian families have been annihilated,” he claimed. “Thousands have died because of the spread of disease and epidemics and the shortages of medicine and water.”
He claimed Israel had actually ruined the Gaza Strip “almost entirely,” claiming the area was “no longer fit for life.”
Abbas likewise implicated Israel of “launching a new aggression” on Lebanon, which has actually been struck by waves of Israeli strikes in current days.
“We condemn this aggression, and we demand that it stops immediately,” he claimed.