Opposition to displacement of Gaza residents grows amid Israeli strikes

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at the opening of the 32nd session of the Palestinian Central Council in Ramallah, West Bank, on Wednesday, stressed his state's rejection of Israel's attempts to uproot Gaza Strip residents from their homes on the first day of the two-day meeting.

Abbas insisted that Gaza Strip is an inseparable part of Palestine and went ahead in describing the tragic event as a "new Nakba", referring to the mass displacement of some 700,000 Palestinians in Israel's 1948 War of Independence.

Abbas also slammed Israel for "besieging our people financially by stealing Palestinian clearance revenues, which have so far exceeded $2 billion", and seizing citizens' lands.