President Mahmoud Abbas received, today, Friday, at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron.

The President briefed the British Foreign Secretary on the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territory, especially in the Gaza Strip, and stressed 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 introduction of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as well as stopping the attacks of the occupation forces and settlers 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, including Jerusalem, reoccupying it, or cutting off any part of it.

The President stressed that the Israeli occupation authorities must stop their oppressive practices, ethnic cleansing, undermining the two-state solution, the crimes of terrorist settlers, and the attacks of the occupation forces.

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.

The President called on his guest, the British Foreign Minister, to recognize the State of Palestine and support its endeavor to obtain full membership in the United Nations.