Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denounced Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza as well as “what Hamas carried out on the seventh of October,” while declaring that Palestinians will defiantly remain on their lands, during his virtual speech at the UN General Assembly on Thursday.
In his address to the 80th session of the assembly, Abbas, 89, said the war has killed and wounded roughly 220,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom he said are women, children and the elderly, relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants. Hamas says some 66,000 have been killed. Israel says it has killed some 22,000 gunmen.
He highlighted Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, including the recent approval of the E1 settlement project, which aims to forestall efforts to establish a viable, contiguous Palestinian state, as well as unchecked settler violence.
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