RAMALLAH: The President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas has Wednesday called on Hamas movement to quickly complete a prisoner swap deal in order to protect Palestinian people and avoid an attack on Rafah city.
“In the face of the comprehensive war being waged against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, we call on the Hamas movement to quickly complete prisoner swap deal to spare Palestinian people the scourge of another catastrophe with ominous consequences, no less dangerous than the Nakba of 1948, and to avoid the occupation’s attack on the city of Rafah, which will lead to thousands of victims, suffering and displacement for our people,” the President said.
President Abbas called on the US administration and the Arab nations to work seriously to complete the prisoner swap deal as quickly as possible, in order to “spare the Palestinian people the scourge of this devastating war.”
The President said that the Israeli occupation is waging an open war
on the Gaza Strip, which has led to the killing of hundreds of Palestinian people every day, in addition to storming of the West Bank and Jerusalem, and other dangerous Israeli escalation. “Therefore, we must bear our responsibilities in stopping this comprehensive war on Palestinian people,” he said.
President Abbas added that “we hold everyone responsible for placing any obstacles from any party to disrupt the deal, because things are no longer tolerable, and it is time for everyone to bear responsibility.”
The President continued, ‘We want to protect our people from the repercussions of any serious disaster that will befall them, so we must make decisions that serve the interests of our people and protect them, so that we can defend our cause and our national interests, by stopping the aggression, recognizing the independent State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital, and continuing our comprehensive political efforts before the UN Security Council and the rest of the international institution
s to obtain full membership for the State of Palestine in the United Nations.”
President Abbas concluded, “Once again, we call on everyone, especially the Hamas movement, to quickly complete the deal so that we can protect our people and remove all obstacles.”
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA