Abbas: ‘Israel’s actions are not simple aggression but crimes against humanity’

Turin, 25 September (LaPresse) – ‘What Israel is perpetrating is not simple aggression, it is a war crime and a crime against humanity, documented and monitored, and it will be recorded in the history books and in the pages of international conscience as one of the most horrific chapters of the humanitarian tragedy of the 20th and 21st centuries.’ This was stated by Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking at the United Nations General Assembly. ‘Over the past two years, our people in the Gaza Strip have faced a war of genocide, destruction, hunger and displacement,’ Abbas said via video link.