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STORY: UNGA79 / PALESTINE
TRT: 05:15
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt down, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walks up to the General Assembly rostrum
3. Med shot, Palestine delegation
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, State of Palestine:
“We will not leave, we will not leave, we will not leave. Palestine is our homeland. It is the land of our fathers, our grandfathers. It will remain ours. And if anyone were to leave, it would be the occupying usurpers.”
5. Wide shot, Abbas at the rostrum
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, State of Palestine:
“I'm not here to respond to the lies of the Israeli prime minister, lies that he said in his speech before the US Congress in July, where he claimed that his army did not kill innocent civilians in Gaza. I ask you, by God, who is it then that killed more than 15,000 children of the 40,000, and an equal number of women and elderly persons from our people? And who is it then that is continuing to kill them? I asked you to answer me by God.”
7. Med shot, Israeli delegate
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, State of Palestine:
“Stop killing children and women, stop the genocide, stop sending weapons to Israel. This madness cannot continue. The entire world is responsible for what is happening to our people in Gaza and the West Bank, the West Bank that is under a daily and continuous Israeli aggression.”
9. Wide shot, Abbas at the rostrum
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, State of Palestine:
“I condemn the killing of civilians, regardless of who they are and regardless of what side they were on or any people they were from. I demanded the release of prisoners and those detained by both sides. There's no need to detain women, children and the elderly. We've said this repeatedly to anyone who has those people detained, I called for immediately going to the negotiations table to implement a two-state solution based on international resolutions, but instead of hearing the voice of reason, the Israeli government took advantage of what happened to launch an all-out war of genocide against Gaza.”
11. Wide shot, Abbas at the rostrum
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, State of Palestine:
“If Israel thinks that it would get away from being held accountable and punished for these crimes, then it is delusional. The international community must immediately impose sanctions on Israel. The massacres, the crimes, the genocide that Israel has been perpetrating against our people since its inception in 1948 to this very day, will not go unpunished.”
13. Med shot, Palestine delegation
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, State of Palestine:
“We regret that the US administration - the largest democracy in the world - obstructed three times Security Council resolutions demanding Israel to observe a ceasefire. The US alone stood and said, no, the fighting is going to continue. It did this by using the veto and added to that it furnished Israel with the deadly weapons that it used to kill thousands of innocent civilians, children and women. And this further encouraged Israel to continuous aggression.”
15. Med shot, US delegation
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, President, State of Palestine:
“We will continue to mobilize the largest possible international support so that the state of Palestine can achieve full membership in the United Nations as soon as possible. What do we lack to be sitting amongst you? What do we lack to be on the same footing as 194 official member states in the United Nations? We have the land. We have the authority. We have the people, we have the culture, we have the knowledge, we have everything that we need. We ask you to help us.”
17. Various shots, applause
Addressing the General Assembly’s General Debate, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today (26 Sep) condemned the killing of civilians, “regardless of who they are and regardless of what side they were on,” and said the Israeli government “took advantage” of what happened on 7 October “to launch an all-out war of genocide against Gaza.”
At the start of his allocution to the GA, Abbas said, “we will not leave, we will not leave, we will not leave. Palestine is our homeland. It is the land of our fathers, our grandfathers. It will remain ours. And if anyone were to leave, it would be the occupying usurpers.”
He said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech before the US Congress in July had claimed “that his army did not kill innocent civilians in Gaza.,” and added, “who is it then that killed more than 15,000 children of the 40,000, and an equal number of women and elderly persons from our people? And who is it then that is continuing to kill them? I asked you to answer me by God.”
Abbas said, “stop killing children and women, stop the genocide, stop sending weapons to Israel. This madness cannot continue. The entire world is responsible for what is happening to our people in Gaza and the West Bank, the West Bank that is under a daily and continuous Israeli aggression.”
He said, “there's no need to detain women, children and the elderly” and reiterated his call “for immediately going to the negotiations table to implement a two-state solution based on international resolutions,”
The Palestinian President said, “if Israel thinks that it would get away from being held accountable and punished for these crimes, then it is delusional.”
He said the US administration had “obstructed three times Security Council resolutions demanding Israel to observe a ceasefire” and had “furnished Israel with the deadly weapons that it used to kill thousands of innocent civilians, children and women. And this further encouraged Israel to continuous aggression.”
Abbas said, “what do we lack to be sitting amongst you? What do we lack to be on the same footing as 194 official member states in the United Nations? We have the land. We have the authority. We have the people, we have the culture, we have the knowledge, we have everything that we need. We ask you to help us.”
