Abbas: "Israeli escalation" increased after UNESCO membership
Israeli escalation against Palestinian people increased after Palestine was accepted as a full member by UNESCO, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday.
As Abbas laid flowers on the grave of late leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank, he told reporters that the Israeli escalation " has never stopped," but targeted the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) more following last month's voting in UNESCO.
Abbas noted that Israel sped up settlement activities in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank and withheld tax revenues for the PNA. Israel took those two measures recently.
However, Abbas stressed that the Palestinians would go ahead with their plan to get full membership in the United Nations.
Abbas said the Palestinian leadership awaits responses to the membership application that was submitted to the UN Security Council in late September.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
English.news.cn 2011-11-06 23:19:40 FeedbackPrintRSS
RAMALLAH, Nov. 6 (Xinhua)
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