Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Palestine Stating that they won’t settle for something lower than their state, he stated, “That is Yasir Arafat’s entrusted to us and we’re loyal and decided to realize this.” stated.
A commemoration program was held within the Gaza Strip on the event of the 18th anniversary of the dying of Yasir Arafat, the previous President of Palestine and the chief of the Palestine Liberation Group (PLO) and Fatah.
“WITHOUT THE GAZA STRIP, THERE IS NO PALESTINIAN”
Abbas, whose video message was broadcast on the commemoration ceremony, emphasised that there will likely be no Palestinian state within the West Financial institution with out the Gaza Strip, and there will likely be no Palestinian state in Gaza with out Jerusalem and the West Financial institution. He’s entrusted to us by Arafat, and we’re loyal and decided to realize it.” he stated.
Addressing the Gazans in his speech, Abbas said that they’re conscious of the struggling they’re struggling underneath siege and that they’re attempting to consolation them as finest they’ll, however that the political division has pushed them again to the Palestinian trigger, including that the value of this political division, which threatens to waste the good points of the Palestinian individuals, has been paid by “martyrs, prisoners and wounded” with a heavy worth. expressed.
Noting that they won’t settle for the continuation of the political division among the many Palestinians, irrespective of the value, Abbas stated that the continuation of this division means the absence of the geographical unity of the longer term Palestinian state.
Arafat, the primary President of Palestine, thought-about one of the crucial vital symbols of the Palestinian resistance, died on 11 November 2004 in France.
DIVISION BETWEEN PALESTINIAN GROUPS
Since 2007, when Hamas got here to energy within the Gaza Strip, which received the 2006 elections in Palestine, there was political division within the Palestinian territories underneath Israeli occupation and blockade.
Though reconciliation talks had been held underneath the mediation of Egypt in Could 2011 and Qatar in February 2012 to finish the disagreements between Hamas and Fatah, the agreed points couldn’t be realized.
Fatah and Hamas signed a consensus settlement on 23 April 2014 to kind a unity authorities and maintain parliamentary and presidential elections. The consensus authorities was established on June 2, 2014, however because of the political variations between the 2 sides, the federal government couldn’t fulfill its responsibility in Gaza underneath the Israeli blockade.
Lastly, inside the scope of the negotiations held in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, on October 12, 2017, a “reconciliation settlement” was signed that ended the division in Palestine. Nonetheless, because of the disagreement between Fatah and Hamas, there are difficulties in its implementation.