Palestinian Authority ready to enter Gaza and fulfill Trump's new plan, Abbas tells UN

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas slammed Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip and said his government was ready to implement a plan unveiled this week by US President Donald Trump for the besieged enclave, as he spoke by video to the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday.

Abbas and his Palestinian delegation had been denied visas by the Trump administration and so was forced to address the annual UN summit remotely.

Abbas refrained from criticising the US, and instead said the Palestinian Authority was ready to govern Gaza and work with Trump on his new peace plan. 

“I speak to you today after almost two years of which our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip have been facing a war of genocide, destruction, starvation, and displacement,” Abbas said.

His speech comes as Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza with unconditional US support. Israel has launched a ferocious assault on Gaza City, where Middle East Eye has reported a “dystopian” level of destruction.

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