The president of the Palestinian Authority, who was expressed during an extraordinary summit in the Arab League, accused the Israeli government of going beyond “all the red lines”.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
The president of the Palestinian authority prayed on Sunday the international community to “protect” its people from the actions of the Israeli government, which, according to him, “exceeded all the red lines”. Mahmoud Abbas was expressed at a summit for Jerusalem organized at the seat of the Arab League, in Cairo, to take stock of the flambé of violence in the West Bank.
According to the UN, 2022 was the deadliest year in the West Bank occupied since 2005. The France-Presse Agency (AFP) identified 235 dead, of which almost 90 % were Palestinians. In 2023, forty-three Palestinians, nine Israeli civilians and a Ukrainian were killed, according to official data.
Besides Mahmoud Abbas, the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al -Sissi – whose country is a historic mediator of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict – and King Abdallah II of Jordan have taken the floor. “The current situation requires an intensification of our efforts,” argued the latter, adding that the American president, Joe Biden, had recently expressed his “strong support for a solution to two states”.
” Biden does nothing “
“Mr. Biden says [] support her, but he does nothing at all,” deplored Mr. Abbas. The Palestinians will go “in a few days before the UN Security Council” and intend to seize the International Criminal Court (ICC) because they now count “every day more than one martyr”, he continued.
“The UN position is clear: it refuses unilateral decisions,” said Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the organization, who intervened at a distance of illegal Israeli colonies in Jerusalem-Est “.
The Arab League, losing speed for years, is more and more divided on the issue of standardization with Israel, which Mahmoud Abbas considers as a questioning of the principles of the organization. Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognized the existence of Israel in 2020, and Sudan repeated in February that it intended to do so. Egypt and Jordan took the plunge several decades ago.