The Palestinian president, forceful at the peace summit in Cairo: "We will never leave our land and we will resist until the end"

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, stated this Saturday that the Palestinians will never leave their territory and will resist to the end Israel's attempts to forcibly relocate the population of Gaza to Egypt in the midst of the current war in the Palestinian enclave.

“We will never leave, we will never leave our lands (…) And we will resist until the end,” Abbas concluded in his speech at the Peace Summit that takes place this Saturday in the so-called New Administrative Capital of Egypt, east of Cairo, to seek a solution to end the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.

Abbas has pointed out that the Palestinian National Authority that he presides is the “only entity” that represents the Palestinians and that the only solution for the region is the creation of two states in the former Palestine with east Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state.

The Palestinian president has deplored the “murder of civilians on both sides” and has called for the “release of hostages on both sides.” He has reiterated his call for humanitarian corridors and aid entry to the Gaza Strip to be opened, but “of course, Israel did not allow it.”

Israel, through the United States, has finally given permission for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza this Saturday through the Rafah crossing, which connects Egypt with the enclave.

But only 20 trucks have entered so far after two weeks of Israeli bombing and siege as collective punishment for the Hamas attack on October 7, which sparked the current war.