The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, said, “The government presented its programs for relief and restoring basic services, institutional reform, and financial and economic stability, and announced its readiness to assume its duties in the Gaza Strip as well as in the West Bank, including all Gaza Strip crossings.”

President Abbas stressed in his speech before the international conference, hosted by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, at the King Hussein bin Talal Convention Center in the Dead Sea region, today, Tuesday, that the time has come to stop the genocide that our people in Gaza have been subjected to for eight months, and what they are suffering in... The West Bank, including Jerusalem, is one of the crimes of the occupation and its terrorist settlers.

He called on the Security Council and all parties of the international community to put pressure on Israel to open all land crossings into the Gaza Strip and hand them over to the new Palestinian government.

He also called on friends and brothers to support the humanitarian aid programs submitted to the “Gaza Emergency Humanitarian Response Conference” to provide relief to the stricken Palestinian people.

President Abbas stressed the need to continue efforts for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, to open the way for the establishment of the State of Palestine and its assuming its full duties.

He reiterated that the political solution based on international legitimacy resolutions and the Arab Initiative requires the State of Palestine to obtain full membership in the United Nations and be recognized by more countries in the world.

President Abbas thanked King Abdullah II, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for calling for this important conference to provide urgent humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.