The Palestinian Leader says he is ready to work with us for a peaceful plan for two countries

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he was ready to work with world leaders to fulfill a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians announced by France on Monday.

Speaking through a video of the UN General Assembly, Abbas repeated his rejection as Hamas’s future governing role in Gaza and asked him to disarm.

He also called on countries that have not yet recognized a Palestinian state to do so and to provide him with full membership.

Abbas condemned Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, accusing him of carrying out “one of the most terrifying humanitarian tragedies from the 20th and 21st centuries.” But he said he “rejected” Hamas’s actions in his attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

This attack, which killed about 1,200 people – mostly civilians, and 251 took hostages, caused the war in Gaza. At least 65 502 Palestinians, about half of them women and children, have been killed by Israeli hostilities in Gaza since then, according to the Health Ministry of Gaza.

89 -year -old Abbas was forbidden to travel to New York to appear in person when he and 80 other Palestinian officials were canceled by their visas from the US State Department last month.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused them of undermine peaceful efforts and searching for “unilateral recognition of the Palestinian state’s assumption.”

In his speech, Abbas thanked those countries who recently recognized a Palestinian state in a wave of declarations that began with Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Portugal on Sunday.

France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Denmark followed.

The United States is currently opposing Palestine’s recognition, saying that such a move is a Hamas Award.

Abbas approved the Peace Plan announced by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Monday Summit, which was co -chairman of Saudi Arabia.

The plan requires the simultaneous release of 48 other hostages held by Hamas with the termination of Israeli military operations in Gaza.

This will be followed by a transitional administration – including the Palestinian power of Abbas (PA) and the exclusion of Hamas – to rule the gas, making the way to “sovereign, independent and demilitarized state of Palestine.”

Neither the US nor Israel supported the plan.

However, Abbas said he was “read (Y) to work with President Donald Trump, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, France, the United Nations and all the partners to apply the peace plan … making the way to just peace and overall regional cooperation.”

He also called on a Palestinian state to take over “full responsibilities” for the Gaza Strip after the withdrawal of Israeli and to connect it to the West coast occupied by Israel. He said it would be with Arabic and international support.

Previously, Israel rejected any future post -war role for the BCP in Gaza.

The Palestinian president also said there would be “national efforts to reform, including conducting presidential and parliamentary elections within one year of the end of the war.”

“We want a democratic, modern country, engaged in international law, the rule of law, pluralism, the peaceful transfer of power and the empowerment of women and young people.”

The last national Palestinian elections were held in 2006 and were won by Hamas.

The group forcibly discarded Abbas Fatah’s faction – their political rivals – from the next year’s gas, leaving it in the only power there.