Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas. Reuters file
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Friday warned in opposition to a “second Nakba” disaster going through Palestinians after the Israeli military ordered a couple of million folks to evacuate north Gaza.
Abbas “completely rejects the displacement of our people from the Gaza Strip, because it will be tantamount to a second Nakba for our people,” he stated, in response to an announcement printed by the official Palestinian information company Wafa.
The Nakba, or “catastrophe”, refers to some 760,000 Palestinians who fled or have been expelled from their properties in the course of the 1948 struggle that coincided with Israel’s creation.
His remarks got here after the Israeli navy dropped leaflets on the blockaded Gaza Strip warning folks to flee from the north, an space house to some 1.1 million folks.
Abbas’s Palestinian Authority is seated in Ramallah, within the occupied West Financial institution, and is cut up from the militant group Hamas which guidelines Gaza.
Israeli forces have launched 1000’s of strikes on Gaza since Saturday, killing greater than 1,530 folks in response to a well being ministry toll.
The struggle erupted within the wake of cross-border assaults by Hamas militants, which killed greater than 1,300 folks, the Israeli navy stated.