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To: Les H who wrote (43291)	8/15/2024 6:33:31 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 51353

In Turkey, Abbas declares he’ll go to Gaza ‘even if it costs my life,’ mourns Haniyeh PA leader tells parliament in Ankara there can be no Palestinian state without Gaza: ‘We don’t accept any solution that would divide our territories’ By AFP and ToI Staff Today, 8:31 pm Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a special session of the Turkish parliament on Thursday that he would travel to the Gaza Strip, where 10 months of war have left rival faction Hamas battered and largely unable to rule. Abbas’s declaration that he would lead a delegation to the enclave came as negotiators met in the Qatari capital of Doha to attempt to hammer out the final details of an elusive deal meant to halt fighting in the enclave and free hostages held there by the Hamas terror group. “I have decided to go to Gaza with other brothers from the Palestinian leadership,” Abbas said to applause from Turkish lawmakers. “I will do that, even if this would cost my life,” Abbas added in remarks translated into Turkish from Arabic. “Our life is not more worthy than the life of a child.” With Israel currently controlling all entry points into the Strip, Abbas will not be able to enter the enclave without approval and coordination with Jerusalem. Access to the enclave has been severely restricted since October 7, when Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack from Gaza, killing some 1,200 people in Gaza and kidnapping 251, mostly civilians. The Ramallah-based Abbas heads Fatah, which controls the PA in the West Bank but was violently ousted from Gaza by Hamas in a 2007 coup. Abbas has not been to the enclave since, though he also vowed in 2017 to travel to Gaza during a short-lived Fatah-Hamas rapprochement. That trip never took place, and a year later when PA prime minister Rami Hamdallah attempted to visit Gaza, he was targeted by a car bomb in a failed assassination attempt by Palestinians in the Strip. timesofisrael.com It is too late. So much land in the West Bank has been lost under the PA leadership and only seems to be gathering pace.