Mah­moud Abbas says Trump’s Gaza peace plan hasn’t mate­ri­al­ized

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Mahmoud Abbas says Trump’s Gaza peace plan hasn’t materialized

Pales­tin­ian Author­i­ty Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Abbas said he wel­comed Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s peace plan as a con­cept, but that it hadn’t mate­ri­al­ized in the region.Abbas, who spoke to the U.N. Gen­er­al Assem­bly via a pre­re­cord­ed video address because his visa to the Unit­ed States was denied, offered some praise for Trump, say­ing he wel­comed the plan, accom­pa­ny­ing Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil res­o­lu­tion, and road map for imple­ment­ing the sec­ond phase.“This was to halt the aggres­sion against our peo­ple, end their human­i­tar­i­an suf­fer­ing, and secure the with­draw­al of the occu­pa­tion forces from the Gaza Strip and begin rebuild­ing the Gaza Strip,” he said.
How­ev­er, speak­ing almost one year after the peace deal was signed, Abbas said none of the agree­ment had actu­al­ly been imple­ment­ed.
“Regret­ful­ly, we have not seen any of this …