Palestinians will keep struggle against Israel, says Abbas President Mahmoud Abbas
President Mahmoud Abbas

President Mahmoud Abbas

RAMALLAH. — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Wednesday that the Palestinians will keep their struggle against the Israeli policies in Jerusalem and the entire Palestinian territories.

In a recorded televised speech aired on the official Palestine satellite channel, Abbas accused Israel of escalating violent actions and field execution against defenceless Palestinians.

“The Israeli escalation aims at igniting the flames of religious conflict not only in the region, but also in the entire world,” Abbas said, adding that “we won’t let any of the Israeli schemes in relation to Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque pass.”

Since early October, 30 Palestinians were killed in the Palestinian territories and over than 1 000 wounded in a fierce wave of tension that broke out in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

“We won’t attack anyone and we never accept any attack on us. We informed the world that we won’t accept a continuation of the current situation and we won’t surrender to the policy of occupation and aggression,” said Abbas.

He went on saying that the Israeli government’s policies and the assaults of the settlers on the Palestinian people “are threatening the peace process and tranquillity in the region.”

President Abbas referred to the killing of a 13-year-old boy, saying “all the cases of the field executions, the new Israeli weapons used by Israel against children and youths of Jerusalem to the International Criminal Court (ICC).”

“Amid all these Israeli violations, which have been going on for two weeks and were practiced in the West Bank, in Jerusalem and in Gaza, the freedom of the Palestinian people will come very soon,” said Abbas.

Abbas stressed that the Palestinian people “have the right of self-defence through out the peaceful resistance as well as the legal and political struggle,” adding that “we won’t remain hostages to the deals that Israel doesn’t respect.”

He stressed that peace, calm and security can’t be achieved without ending the Israeli occupation and establishing the Palestinian state on 1967 border. — Xinhua.

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