The Palestinian Authority announced Saturday evening that it plans to turn to the U.N. Security Council and demand that it condemn Israel for its latest attacks in the territories and specifically in Gaza.
Fifteen Palestinians were killed in the recent IDF attacks, seven of them from IAF fire directed at a training camp of a Fatah-affiliated group near Khan Yunis.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, spokesman for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said the air strikes were a "new escalation" and that the Palestinians would appeal to the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution against the attacks.
‘Prepare to respond’
“We demand that the Quartet and the international community intervene immediately and pressure Israel to stop its aggression,” he said.
Razi Hamad, spokesman for the Palestinian government, said the attack in Gaza was an act of terror, adding that Israel should be isolated.
“Israel only understands the language of blood and force,” he said. “It focuses its attacks on Gaza to increase the sense of fear among the Palestinian populace.”
Hamad said the PA government fails to understand Europe’s silence amid the Israeli ‘escalation,’ adding that “the Palestinian nation is stronger than Israel’s entire arsenal.”
A spokesman for the Abu-Reish Brigades, whose members were killed in Saturday’s attack, promised swift revenge, while the al-Aqsa Martys Brigades called on its members to prepare to respond to “Israel’s latest crimes.”