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Palestinian president urges intl community to end Israeli occupation
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Palestinian youth attend a demonstration in Beit Jala to express their support with Gaza and Sheikh Jarah on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 17, 2021. /CFP

Palestinian youth attend a demonstration in Beit Jala to express their support with Gaza and Sheikh Jarah on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 17, 2021. /CFP

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that the situation in the territories "has become unbearable due to the Israeli violations," reported Palestine's official news agency WAFA.

He called on the United States to turn its words on the Palestinian cause into deeds, and urged the international community to move quickly to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Abbas made the remarks during a meeting with Palestinian businesspersons at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

He said that "Israel should stop all its measures against our people in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip," warning that if Israel rejects the two-state solution, "the Palestinians will be obliged to go for other political choices."

"We will ask for the implementation of the United Nations Security Council's resolution passed in 1947, or go to the one democratic state on the land of historic Palestine in which the full political and civil rights of the Palestinians are gained," Abbas had said on October 2.

Direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which were sponsored by the United States for nine months, stopped in 2014 following deep disagreements on Israeli settlement and the recognition of establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 border.

Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are claimed by the Palestinians, in the 1967 Middle East war and has controlled them ever since.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency

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