Palestinian leader says no value for negotiations without any timeline or Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank At the end to israeil occupation, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas demanded on Friday telling the United Nations that the time for Palestinian independence had near to arrive.
In his speech performed at the U.N. General Assembly, Abbas also said he will seek a U.N. resolution to set a deadline for Israel to pull out of Palestinian lands captured in the 1967 war but did not include a three-year deadline as his aides had said he would.
Abbas said "This last war against Gaza was a series of absolute war crimes carried out before the eyes and ears of the entire world, moment by moment," The devastation unleashed, he said, "is unmatched in modern times."
Israel showed thousands of airstrikes against Gaza, while Gaza militants fired several thousand rockets at Israel.Almost According to UN figure More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, a large majority civilians, and some 18,000 homes were destroyed, Sixty-six soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side.The devastating war has weakened Abbas domestically, with his Hamas rivals enjoying a surge of popularity among Palestinians for fighting Israel.
His aides had said he would launch a new bid for a U.N. Security Council resolution to set a three-year timetable for Israel to pull out of Palestinian lands captured in the 1967 war. They added that a U.N. rejection of the Palestinian request would prompt Abbas to seek membership in international agencies, including the ICC.
That would open the door to war crimes charges against Israel for its military actions in Gaza and Jewish settlement construction on West Bank land the Palestinians want for a future state.
However, Abbas' speech lookrf m less dramatic than what his aides were saying at week start.
"We will not forget and we will not forgive, and we will not allow war criminals to escape punishment," Abbas said, but he made no mention of the ICC.
He also did not mention a deadline for ending the occupation in his speech, referring instead to a "specific time frame for the implementation of these objectives."
The major policy is Turning to the ICC by Abbas. It transfer his relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile, and badly strain his relations with the United States.
On tuesday Abbas met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in New York and expressed little optimism his U.N. bid would survive a Security Council vote. The United States will almost certainly veto such a measure, having said the only resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is through direct negotiations between the two sides.
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