‘No security and stability’ without a Palestinian state: Mahmoud Abbas
Online desk: There can be “no security and stability in the region” without a Palestinian state, said the spokesperson for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, reports Associated Press.
The remarks come in response to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection on Thursday of calls by the US to take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war.
“Without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the borders of 1967, there will be no security and stability in the region,” Palestinian state news agency Wafa quoted Abbas’ spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeineh as saying on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Gaza detainees ‘humiliated’ and ‘subjected to ill-treatment’, says UN human rights official
“Israel must take urgent steps to ensure that all those arrested or detained are treated in line with international human rights and international humanitarian law norms and standards, notably with full respect for their due process rights,” wrote Shamdasani.
She also described the situation in Gaza as a “massive human rights crisis” and a “major, human-made, humanitarian disaster”, describing how heavy bombardment of middle Gaza and Khan Younis was “clearly visible and audible”. Shamdasani said she could hear bombing “sometimes several times an hour” from her location in Rafah.
