2024-08-17
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[Global Times Comprehensive Report] According to AFP, Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech at a special meeting of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on the 15th local time, saying, "I have decided to go to the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian leadership. I will do my best to stop Israel's brutal aggression with the Palestinian people, even if it costs my life." Abbas said, "Our lives are no more precious than the life of a Palestinian child in the Gaza Strip."
On the 15th local time, Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech at a special meeting of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. (Visual China)
Abbas also called on leaders of Arab and Islamic countries, other world leaders and the UN Secretary-General to go to the Gaza Strip and called on the UN Security Council to ensure their access to the Gaza Strip.
Abbas said he planned to go to Jerusalem after his trip to Gaza. But he did not announce the exact date of the trip. He told Turkish lawmakers: "Gaza is an integral part of the State of Palestine. We do not accept any solution that divides our territory. There is no Palestinian state without the Gaza Strip. Israel is trying to wipe the Palestinians off the land of Palestine, but these actions will not succeed. The Palestinian people will not be defeated and will never surrender."
According to a report on the website of Al Arabiya TV on the 16th, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has lasted for more than 10 months, has caused the deaths of more than 40,000 Palestinians. Sadi Barak, who is digging graves for the dead, said that the cemetery where he works is full, and now he can only build another layer on the original graves to pile up the dead layer by layer. Barak said: "Before the conflict broke out, I buried one or two dead people a week, and at most five dead people. Now, I have to bury 200-300 dead people a week." Barak witnessed the tragedy every day. "Seeing so many bodies of women and children who were bombed and mutilated, I couldn't sleep at all. One day, I buried 47 women from the same family." According to a report by Qatar's Al Jazeera TV, Palestinians have been fleeing during the conflict, and sometimes they have to simply bury the dead in abandoned parking lots or even on the roadside.
Qatar's Al Jazeera reported on the 16th that Israel issued a new evacuation order to the southern Gaza Strip, including parts of the area previously designated by Israel as a "humanitarian safety zone." The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East posted on social media on the 16th that Israel's evacuation order would only plunge the war-torn region into an "endless nightmare of death and destruction." (Song Bo)