Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Nations to compel Israel to implement its resolutions or suspend its membership in the international organization, holding Britain and the United States directly politically and morally responsible for the Nakba of the Palestinian people.

During a special session organized by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on the anniversary of the Nakba, Abbas said that the United Nations decision to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba of the Palestinian people is historic.

"About a thousand UN resolutions issued by the United Nations, the General Assembly and the Security Council on the Palestinian issue since 1947 have not been implemented," he said, calling for Israel to be obliged to implement UN resolutions on Palestine or suspend its membership in the international organization.


The Palestinian president said that certain countries (he did not mention) members of the UN General Assembly had intentionally obstructed the implementation of those resolutions in practices that offend values and morals and increase the suffering of the Palestinian people.

"Major countries stand idly by in the face of the continued aggression, refuse to hold Israel accountable, and accept that Israel remains a state above the law and provides it with protection from any accountability or punishment," he said.

The Palestinian president held Britain and the United States in particular directly politically and morally responsible for the Nakba of the Palestinian people, saying, "They are partners in the tragedy of the Palestinian people when they decided to establish an entity for their own colonial purposes. Israel would not have continued its aggression without the support of those countries."

Abbas said that the most important condition for achieving peace and security in the region lies in recognizing the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the independence of their sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the borders of June 1967 and the release of all prisoners from Israeli prisons.

He stressed that the Palestinian narrative related to the Nakba and the Palestinian cause has begun to make its way into the consciousness of peoples to expose the falsity of the Israeli narrative, stressing that the continued occupation of Palestinian land and the siege of the Gaza Strip are a real reason for the continuation of the cycle of violence.

Settler violence

UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo said settler violence was widening amid relentless demolitions of Palestinians.

In her speech, DiCarlo added that the violence inside and near Al-Aqsa Mosque is very worrying, stressing the position of the United Nations on the need to end the occupation and achieve the two-state solution.

On November 30, 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted four resolutions in favor of Palestine, including one requesting the Secretariat's Division for Palestinian Rights to dedicate its activities in 4 to commemorating the 2023th anniversary of the Nakba, including holding a high-level event in the General Assembly Hall on May 75, 15.

Thousands of Palestinians in Ramallah on Monday marked the anniversary they associate with the establishment of Israel in 1948 in a demonstration that turned into a festival, during which they expressed their attachment to their land and the right of return.

Thousands of demonstrators from across the occupied West Bank carried Palestinian flags and black flags with "Return" written in Arabic and English, and an old key painted on them.

In Palestine, the Higher National Committee for Commemoration announced a series of events in all Palestinian governorates, while the central event will be in the city of Ramallah, where a march began in front of the tomb of the late President Yasser Arafat.

Mourning sirens sound for 75 seconds, the number of years of the Nakba, and during the march hundreds of Palestinians carry Palestinian flags as well as the names of villages and cities destroyed by the Israelis.

On Monday, Palestinian factions called on the Palestinian people to "continue the struggle and rally around the option of resistance until the liberation of the land and the achievement of return."

The term Nakba refers to the displacement of Palestinians from their more than 520 lands and villages by armed Zionist gangs in 1948.

Some 800,15 Palestinians were forced to leave their homes in the year of Israel's founding, fleeing massacres by Zionist gangs that killed some <>,<> Palestinians, according to Palestinian government reports.

According to a statement by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics published on Sunday, the number of Palestinians has increased about 10 times since the Nakba, and is estimated today at about 14.3 million, including about 6.4 million refugees.