Abbas declares: 'If not two states, then one state for all its citizens' in Gaza speech

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech via satellite broadcasting on Saturday at an assembly organized by Fatah party in the Gaza Strip, on the 13th anniversary of the death of PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

In his address, Abbas stated that "no one cares more about people in Gaza than we do. There will be no (Palestinian—ed) state without Gaza or a state only in Gaza."

He also said that if the two-state solution collapses, the Palestinian leadership would support a one-state solution with full equality of rights for all its citizens.