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00:00Mr. Abbas is calling for international forces to replace Hamas forces in Gaza.
00:06What has prompted this move and why now?
00:13Thank you for having me.
00:16First and foremost, the Palestinian Authority is the legitimate authority of the Palestinian people
00:21and they should return to the Gaza Strip because they are the legal authority
00:27and practice their legal jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.
00:32Of course, when we talk about a Palestinian state or a project for a Palestinian state,
00:37it should be within one government, one weapon and one authority, one Palestinian national project.
00:44The Palestinian people also requires international protection.
00:49We are all witnessing the crimes against the humanity that Israel is doing in Gaza,
00:54the attacks in the West Bank, the settlements, all these attacks on the Palestinian mere existence
01:01require from the international community to pay attention and to save the Palestinian people
01:05from the cruelty and brutality of the Israeli occupation.
01:12Therefore, we don't have an army.
01:14We are defenseless.
01:15We don't have an air force.
01:16But we have the international community.
01:18We have the international law.
01:19We have the international resolution, more than 800 resolutions issued for the question of Palestine.
01:27Not one of them has been applied.
01:29We ask the question why.
01:31Therefore, it requires from the international community to take serious steps to preserve peace,
01:35to evoke peace and evoke the two-state solution,
01:38provide an international protection mechanism for the Palestinian people
01:41under the understanding that we have reached with the international community.
01:45That requires a serious will and a serious policy by the international community
01:50and on top of them, the United States, to go forward into a peaceful path.
01:55And that peaceful path must be based and can only be based on the two-state solution.