Ensemble de la Palestine

Numéro : fda 001

Date : 09/01/09

Eléments : 10

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34791

Sujet : Le Hamas déclare que Abbas a cessé d’être un président légitime, mais que la priorité est de mettre un terme à l’invasion

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Hamas says Abbas no longer legitimate president, but stopping invasion is priority

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 14:47

Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas warned that after Friday it will no longer recognize Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president, but said its top priority is countering the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.

A senior official in Hamas’ political wing, Mus Abu Marzouq, said in an interview on Sawt Al-Aqsa radio in Gaza that Abbas’ rule will no longer be legal under Palestinian law.

“The president’s term ends today [Friday]. [Because] we are living under exceptional circumstances, Hamas should set up other proriorties ,it has to put all internal differences aside to confront the offensive.”

He also said, “We are not interested in the resolutions of the UN Security Council, because the involved party in Gaza was not consulted. We are not interested in this decision but if it was implemented then the involved sides should coordinate with the sides in the field.”

Abbas and the PA have not yet commented on the issue on Friday.

Until Friday, the Israeli offensive in Gaza had swept aside the partisan bickering between Hamas and Fatah.

Hamas has been locked in a power struggle with Abbas’ Fatah faction for years. Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006. Abbas then fired a Hamas-Fatah unity government after Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip in June 2007.

Until now, Hamas has recognized Abbas as the elected president while disputing the legitimacy of an emergency government the president appointed in 2007.

In mid 2008 Abbas’ government unilaterally decreed that the president’s term would be extended beyond it’s formal end-date of 9 January. Hamas rejected this move, citing the Palestinian Basic law.

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34789

Sujet : Des colons envahissent le village de Qaryut, proche de Naplouse, et tirent sur un garçon de 15 ans

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Settlers invade Qaryut village near Nablus, shoot 15-year-old boy

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 14:40

Nablus-Ma’an- A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was shot by Israeli settlers in near the village of Qaryut south of Nablus city Friday at noon.

The village is bordered by the illegal Israeli settlements of Eli to the west and Shilo to the south. Approximately ten settlers from the Shilo settlement invaded the Palestinian village, said Head of the rural council Abd Al-Nasser Al-Badawy in a telephone call to Ma’an.

While in the village one of the settlers shot Yousif Musa near his home, about 100 meters into the village municipal boundaries. After firing on the boy the group fled the area.

Musa was transferred to the governmental hospital in Ramallah.

Head of municipal and rural affairs Ghassan Daghlas condemned the attack, which he said was part of a trend, calling the act “barbaric.”

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34777

Sujet : Israël ne tient pas compte de la résolution de l’ONU prévoyant un cessez-le-feu – Le bilan officiel atteint 774 morts – Le centre des combats ses situe maintenant au centre de Gaza

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Israel ignores UN call for ceasefire - Official toll reaches 774 - Focus of fighting shifts to middle Gaza

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 09:50

Gaza – Ma’an – Israel ignored a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, killing at least 21 Palestinians since the resolution was passed on Friday morning local time.

The latest casualty to be identified is 15 year-old Muhammad Atef Abu Al-Husna, who was killed when Israeli warplanes leveled a house in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza. He was taken to nearby Kamal Udwan hospital and identified by Mu’awiyah Hassanain, the director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Dr Hassanain said that the death toll over two weeks of the Israeli offensive in Gaza is 774. The official toll is rising as dozens of bodies are recovered from demolished buildings, including many in the central Gaza Strip towns of Al-Latara and Juhor Ad-Dik.

Three more bodies were recovered on Friday morning in As-Saghira, near the city of Khan Younis. Medics identified them as Hamed As-Samiry, Jihad Abu Madif and Ahmad Ash-Sharihi.

An additional 3,200 Gazans have been injured.

Six members of family killed

Six Palestinians from the Salha family were killed by an Israeli tank shelling at 4am that leveled their home in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Later in the morning, two women were killed by another airstrike in Jabaliya. The women were identified by medics as 42-year-old Fatima Sa’ed and 25-year-old Sumayah Sa’ed. A 12-year-old boy, Ata Jamil, was injured.

Israeli Navy attacks central Gaza

In the town of Al-Zawaydah, in the central Gaza Strip, three were killed and seven injured by shelling from Israeli gunboats. The victims were taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Tanks pushing across Khan Younis district

Also at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, nine corpses and 40 injured people arrived overnight, victims of an attempt by Israeli tanks to cut across the middle of the Gaza Strip to the sea. Israeli tanks have already cut across in one place farther north.

Among those killed in the central Gaza incursion is a member of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad. The movement said Jihad Abu Mudif died after being seriously wounded in fighting with Israeli troops near the city of Khan Younis.

Air raids level houses

Israeli airstrikes demolished ten homes overnight, including the residence of the chief of police in Gaza Abu Obeida Al-Jarrah, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.

Warplanes also destroyed the house of the head of Palestinian security in the southern city of Rafah, a man who is said to be affiliated to Hamas’ armed wing.

A police station in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza was also demolished, along with the Ar-Rebat Mosque in Khan Younis and an office linked to Islamic Jihad.

***Updated at 11:41 Gaza time

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34784

Sujet : Le Dr Mustapha Barghouti déclare que « Israël commet des exécutions de masse à Gaza »

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Barghouthi: Israel committing "mass executions" in Gaza

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 13:14

Ramallah – Ma’an – Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouthi said that photos emerging from Gaza showing the corpses of women and children piled under the rubble of buildings prove that Israel is committing “mass executions” in Gaza.

Barghouthi, a doctor and former presidential candidate, also said Israel is committing “Genocide.” He also accused Israel of

He added his voice to growing calls for Israeli politicians and military leaders to be tried for war crimes.

He said the photographic evidence disproves “all the lies that Israelis in charge, including Shimo Peres, Olmert, Livni, and Barak, that they don’t target civilians.”

Barghouthi added that 50 bodies had been recovered from rubble in the areas of Zaytoun, Atatra and Juhor Ad-Dik. He also decried attacks on UNRWA and Red Cross personnel and installations.

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34792

Sujet : Un projet Euro Méditerranéen sur le dialogue de la jeunesse en temps de conflit commence jeudi à Bethlehem

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Euro-Med project on youth dialogue in times of conflict starts Friday in Bethlehem

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 14:50

Bethlehem - Ma’an - A ten-day course in cultural dialogue and non-violent behavior during conflict began in Bethlehem Friday, at the Wi’am Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center.

Thirty young men and women from across the Middle East and Europe will participate in the project. Youth from Italy, France, Portugal, Palestine, and Turkey are among the participants.

One of the principal aims of the project is to strengthen mutual respect between different peoples and deepen intercultural dialogue between youth. The groups will be taught tactics to best listen and respond to different points of view, and will be furnished with the tools so they can continue to deal with issues around dialogue and non-violence in the days, weeks and months after the conference.

Exchanging experiences and opinions will be vital to the project, whose organizers hope to debunk the “clash of civilizations” phenomena and foster mutual understanding.

Project coordinators will use seminars, role-play, theatre and field trips to help engage youth and show them different elements of the lives of their peers.

This youth exchange program is one of ten projects funded by the European Commission through the Euro-Med project in Palestine. This program aims at strengthening and deepening the European Union partnerships with the neighboring countries.

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34782

Sujet : Les combattants Palestiniens s’opposent à l’armée sioniste et tirent des missiles jusqu’à 40 km de Gaza

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Palestinian gunmen battle Israeli army, fire missles as far as 40km from Gaza

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 12:18

Gaza – Ma’an – Palestinian fighters affiliated to Hamas and other factions did not heed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for aceasefire in Gaza, continuing armed resistance to the Israeli invasion and attacks across the Green Line into Israel.

According to Israeli officials, some 20 homemade projectiles and Russian-manufactured rockets landed in Israeli territory in the course of Friday morning. One Israeli man was injured and several buildings were reportedly damaged.

Four Grad missiles landed near the city of Beersheeba, nearly 40 kilometers from Gaza. Palestinian rockets have reportedly landed in and around the city for over a week.

Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said that the range of their Grad missiles is now 45 kilometers. They claimed on Friday to be targeting an air force base called Tal Nof. They also claimed to target the border town of Sderot with two small projectiles.

The Al-Qassam Brigades also claimed to have fired one projectile at an Israeli military installation called “Tselem,” the city of Ashkelon, and Kibbutz Al-Ayn Al-Thalitha. The organization also said its members fought Israeli troops in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.

Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, and another group called the Eagles of Palestine, said they fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at an Israeli tank near the car market (Souq As-Sayarat) area of southern Gaza City.

The Eagles of Palestine also said they clashed with Israeli forces near Sheikh Zayed towers in northern Gaza.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)’s military wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, claimed responsibility for firing two projectiles at Sderot on Thursday night.

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34774

Sujet : Un groupe juif organise un rassemblement de protestation au consulat d’Israël à Toronto

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Jewish group holds rally at Israel’s Toronto consulate

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 00:47

Bethlehem - Ma’an - A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto on Tuesday, according to a statement.

The group said the action was "in protest of the ongoing Israeli assault on the people of Gaza." It carried out the "occupation" in solidarity with the 1.5 million people of Gaza and to ensure that Jewish voices against "the massacre in Gaza" are being heard, it said.

They are demanding that Israel end its military assault and lift the 18-month siege on the Gaza Strip to allow humanitarian aid into the territory.

Israel has been carrying out a full-scale military assault on the Gaza Strip since 27 December. At least 700 people have been killed and well over 3,000 injured in airstrikes and the ground invasion that began on 3 January.

Israel has ignored international calls for a ceasefire and, with a few exceptions, is refusing to allow food, medical supplies and other necessities of life into the Gaza Strip.

The Jewish protesters said they are outraged at Israel’s latest assault on the Palestinian people and by the Canadian government’s refusal to condemn "these massacres."

The group said it is "deeply concerned that Canadians are hearing the views of pro-Israel groups who are being represented as the only voice of Jewish Canadians."

The protesters have occupied the consulate to "send a clear statement that many Jewish-Canadians do not support Israel’s violence and apartheid policies," they said in a statement, adding that they "are joining with people of conscience all across the world who are demanding an end to Israeli aggression and justice for the Palestinian people.

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34785

Sujet : Le gouverneur de Jérusalem se prépare à lancer une campagne de solidarité sur le thème « Nous somme tous Gazaouis »

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Jerusalem governor prepares to launch "We are all Gaza" campaign

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 13:27

Jerusalem – Ma’an – The “We are All Gaza” campaign organized by Jerusalem Governor Adnan Al-Husseini will seek to collect clothing, shoes, candles, bed covers and first-aid equipment for those who have been driven from their homes in the Gaza Strip.

The campaign seeks to involve civil society institutions including sports and youth groups, and to involve all segments of the Jerusalemite society to rally for Gaza and pitch in to show support.

Al-Husseini has been meeting with representatives of local groups in his offices all week in preparation for the launch of the campaign, including Muhammad Ziyad Sab Laban of the youth and sports movement

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Source : MA’AN

Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34647

Sujet : Pourquoi l’arrogance d’Israël me fend le coeur, par le rabbin Michaël Lerner

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Why Israel’s arrogance is breaking my heart - by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Date: 05 / 01 / 2009 Time: 21:48

Bethlehem — Ma’an — Israel’s attempt to wipe out Hamas is understandable, but stupid.

Sure, no country in the world is going to ignore the provocation of rockets being launched from neighboring territory day after day. If Mexico had a group of anti-imperialists bombing Texas, imagine how long it would take for America to mobilize a counterattack. Israel has every right to respond.

But the kind of response matters.

Killing 500 Palestinians and wounding 2,500 others (at the time of writing) is disproportionate. And just as Hamas’s indiscriminate bombing of population centers is a crime against humanity, so too is Israel’s killing of civilians (at least 130 so far, not to mention the thousands in the years of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza).

Before Israel’s massive bombing, the Hamas bombings that began when the previous ceasefire ran out had not (thank God) killed anyone. The reason is obvious: Hamas has no airplanes, no tanks, nothing more than the weapons of the powerless—limited range mortars with limited accuracy.

Hamas can harass, but it cannot pose any threat to the existence of Israel.

On the other hand, any understanding of the situation must also include acknowledgment of the stress faced by Israelis living under the constant threat of terrorism, to which the katyusha bombings, however ineffective militarily, contribute massively. Living under constant threat of attack, plus hearing the leader of Iran talk about wiping Israel off the map, is a background condition that shapes Israelis’ ability to be so insensitive to the human damage they have caused through their occupation.

Conversely, the ongoing trauma of expulsion and the occupation has contributed to the ongoing ethical insensitivity of many Palestinians to the suffering that they cause Israelis by engaging in attacks against civilians.

In short, compassion on both sides is a desperate necessity.

Hamas had respected the previously negotiated ceasefire except when Israel used it as cover to make assassination raids. Hamas argued that these raids were hardly a manifestation of a ceasefire, and so as symbolic protest would allow the release of rocket fire (usually hitting no targets).

But when the issue of continuing the ceasefire came up, Hamas wanted a guarantee that these assassination raids would stop. And it asked for more. With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing acute malnutrition bordering on starvation, Hamas insisted that the borders be opened to counter Israeli attempts to starve the Gazans into submission. And in return for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, it asks for the release of a thousand Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.

Hamas has made it clear that it would accept the terms of the Saudi Arabian peace initiative, though it would never formally recognize Israel. It would live peacefully in a two-state arrangement, but it would never acknowledge Israel’s “right to exist.” This position is unnecessarily provocative and represents deep self-destructiveness on the part of some Palestinians, who believe that this failure to acknowledge Israel’s rights is the only symbolic weapon they have left.

Similarly, there are members of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, who say that they will never accept anything less than the total expulsion ("transfer") of all Palestinians to neighboring Arab states.

So what does Israel really seek? Probably it hopes to make Hamas so powerless that it loses the election against Fatah, and then the Palestinian Authority. It hopes the PA, itself deeply weakened by Israel’s ongoing occupation, might negotiate a peace treaty that creates a "Palestinian state" that is actually a series of cantons or little separated city-states that are themselves cut off from each other by Israeli roads and military—in short a Palestinian state that will be neither economically nor politically viable. Then Israel can claim to have "given" the Palestinians "what they want," and meanwhile Israel will retain its settlements throughout the West Bank and continue de facto control.

Yet this will not generate long-term peace, but only a temporary rest in the fighting. Only a fully just settlement that allows Palestinians a real state that incorporates all of the West Bank and Gaza (with minor border modifications) and that provides real compensation for Palestinian refugees, and a state created in a spirit of generosity and genuine caring on the part of Israel, will end the violence and provide Israel with lasting safety.

Let me be clear. I hate Hamas and everything it stands for. I want to see it defeated. But that defeat can only happen politically through isolation, not militarily through slaughter.

The way to defeat Hamas is through meeting the legitimate needs of the Palestinian people and doing so in a spirit of genuine caring, in which the Jews of the world and the Israeli people show that they recognize Palestinians as our brothers and sisters, made in God’s image and as equally precious to God as the Jewish people.

It is Jews taking seriously our reliance on God and God’s message that the world should be based on love, generosity, caring, kindness, and compassion. And it is a reversal of the reliance on power that has not brought Israel safety or security, and a trust in the fundamental decency of the majority of Palestinians. This is what it would mean for Jews to take seriously our own Judaism and manifest it in a Jewish state.

Israel still seeks to wipe out Hamas. But even if it killed every one of Hamas’ 20,000 fighters in Gaza, it would not extinguish the impulse toward Islamic fundamentalism that Hamas represents. Surely Israelis by now know that killing only creates new generations of angry people who will be the next wave of terrorists.

How do we get out of this destructive spiral? The first step is for the world to demand an immediate ceasefire. That ceasefire should be imposed by the United Nations and backed unequivocally by America. Its terms must include the following:

— Hamas stops all firing of missiles, bombs or any other violent action originating from the West Bank or Gaza, and cooperates in actively jailing anyone from any faction that breaks this ceasefire.

— Israel stops all bombing, targeted assassinations or any other violent actions aimed at activists, militants or suspected terrorists in the West Bank or Gaza, and uses the full force of its army to prevent any further attacks on Palestinians.

— Israel opens the border with Gaza and allows free access to and from Israel, subject only to full search and seizure of any weapons. Israel allows free travel of food, gas, electricity, water and consumer goods and materials including from land, air and sea, subject only to full search and seizure of any weapons or materials typically used for weapons.

— Israel releases all Palestinians in detention and returns them to the West Bank or Gaza according to the choice of the detainees or prisoners. Hamas releases Gilad Shalit and anyone else being held by Palestinian forces.

— Both sides invite an international force to implement these agreements.

— Both sides agree to end teaching and/or advocacy of violence against the other side in and outside mosques, educational institutions and the media.

— This ceasefire would last for 20 years. NATO, the UN and the US all agree to enforce this agreement and impose severe sanctions in the event of any violations.

These steps would make a huge difference, isolate the most radical members of each side from the mainstream and make it possible to then begin negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on a broader and deeper set of issues.

The basic condition for creating peace is to help each side feel "safe." A first and critical step is to speak in a language that is empathic toward the suffering of each people in a climate of discourse in which both sides’ stories are heard and understood.

Yet Israel, as the militarily superior power, ought to take the first steps: Implementing a massive Marshall Plan in Gaza and in the West Bank to end poverty and unemployment, rebuilding infrastructure and encouraging investment, dismantling the settlements or making settlers become citizens of a Palestinian state, accepting 30,000 Palestinian refugees annually back into Israel for the next 30 years, apologizing for its role in the 1948 expulsions and offering to coordinate a worldwide compensation effort for all that Palestinians lost during the occupation and, finally, by recognizing a Palestinian state within borders already defined by the Geneva Accord of 2003.

This is the only way Israel will ever achieve security. It is the only way to permanently defeat Hamas and all extremists who wish to see endless war against Israel.

The most significant contribution the new Obama administration could make to Middle East peace would be to embrace a strategy that homeland security is best achieved not by military or economic domination but by generosity and caring for others. If this new way of thinking could become a serious part of US policy, it would have an immense impact on undermining the fearful consciousness of Israelis who still see the world more through the frame of the Holocaust and previous persecutions than through the frame of their actual present power in the world.

It breaks my heart to see the terrible suffering in Gaza and in Israel. As a religious Jew I find it all the worse, because under the guise of serving God, both Jews and Arabs are actually acting out their accumulated pain in ways that will generate future suffering.

And because it confirms to me how easy it is to pervert the loving message of Judaism into a message of hatred and domination. This is why I remain in mourning for the Jewish people, for Israel and for the world.

***Rabbi Michael Lerner is chief editor of Tikkun Magazine, a prominent Jewish critique of politics, culture and society in North America. Rabbi Lerner has published 11 books, most recently New York Times bestseller "The Left Hand of God," which was lauded by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and numerous others.

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Lien : http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=34786

Sujet : Israël et le Hamas rejettent la dernière résolution du Conseil de Sécurité; L’AP regrette l’occasion ainsi perdue

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Israel, Hamas reject Security Council resolution; PA sees missed opportunity

Date: 09 / 01 / 2009 Time: 13:32

Bethlehem – Ma’an – Both Israel and Hamas rejected on Friday a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt to hostilities in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri argued that the resolution is biased toward Israel and against the Palestinians, and is intended to exact a political price from Hamas.

He said the resolution does not fulfill Hamas’ conditions, which are “to end the Israeli aggression immediately, lift the blockade and Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.”

The Hamas-run de facto government in Gaza has no voice at the United Nations. The Palestinian Authority mission to the UN represents the rival Fatah-led government in the West Bank.

In rejecting the resolution, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, "The State of Israel has never agreed that any outside body would determine its right to defend the security of its citizens.”

He also called the document “not practical,” blaming Palestinian organizations for continuing to fire projectiles and rockets into Israel. He said the Israeli military “will continue operations.”

The resolution "stresses the urgency of and calls for an immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire, leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza." It also called for an end to the smuggling routes from Egypt into Gaza, the reopening of Gaza’s borders, and "unimpeded provision" of humanitarian aid.

Fourteen of 15 member states voted for the resolution, which was submitted by the UK. The United States abstained.

PA: "Best we could get"

An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nimir Hammad said that the PA and Arab states had made a massive effort to pass the ceasefire resolution. Abbas travelled to New York to press the Security Council for a ceasefire.

Hammad said the text of the resolution was the best the Palestinian diplomats could get. “I think that it is not the right time for any side or party to reject to the resolution if the objective is to stop the bloodshed in Gaza.”

“We want to stop the Israeli attacks. There is an Egyptian –French initiaive included in [the resolution] and a speedy mechanism to implement it,” he added.

He also accused Israeli politicians of waging war for electoral gains: “It is well known that the aim of the Israeli attacks is for election gains, they count the bodies for the number of seats in the Knesset.”

Hamad concluded by affirming that “We are ready for a Palestinian-Palestinian dialogue. We hope that after the end of the attacks on Gaza we will start the dialogue based on the Egyptian invitation and proposal.”

***Updared at 14:01 local time