President Mahmoud Abbas received, this evening, Thursday, at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah, both Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose country holds the presidency of the European Union, and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, whose country will assume the presidency of the European Union as of January 2024. .

The President briefed the Spanish and Belgian Prime Ministers on the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territory, especially in the Gaza Strip, stressing the necessity of immediately stopping the occupation’s comprehensive aggression against our people in Gaza and the West Bank, and the crimes of genocide, and accelerating the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as well as stopping the attacks of the forces of genocide of the Israeli and terrorist colonists in the West Bank, stressing the need to release Palestinian funds held by the occupation government.

The President renewed the State of Palestine’s categorical rejection of displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, including Jerusalem, stressing that there is no security or military solution for the Gaza Strip, and that Gaza is an integral part of the Palestinian state, and it is not possible to accept or deal with the plans of the occupation authorities in Separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank and Jerusalem, reoccupying it, or cutting off any part of it.

The President stressed that security and peace are achieved by moving toward a political solution in accordance with the two-state solution based on international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative to end the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

President Abbas thanked the two friendly countries, Spain and Belgium, and the European Union, for their political positions in support of the two-state solution based on international legitimacy, and for the call announced by the Spanish Prime Minister to commit to working towards recognition of the Palestinian state, and the statements of the Belgian Prime Minister and members of his government calling for an end to the war and stop the killing of civilians, adhere to international law, support the work of the International Criminal Court in investigating war crimes committed during the war on the Gaza Strip, and study recognition of the Palestinian state within the framework of the internationally recognized two-state solution.