Palestinian President Abbas: We won’t leave, we will remain on our land

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said “we won’t leave, we will remain on our land” during his opening speech at the Cairo Peace Summit on Saturday.

The summit is being held in Egypt as Israel prepares a ground assault on Gaza following Hamas’ attack that killed 1,400 people.

More than 4,100 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s counteroffensive, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, amid a growing humanitarian crisis.

At the same time, the Israeli military has said that humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip would go only to southern areas of the enclave, where it has urged Palestinian civilians to congregate to avoid its fighting with Hamas.

In a televised briefing, chief spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the aid shipments would not include fuel.

He gave 210 as the updated number of hostages held by Hamas since its October 7 attack on Israel.

And he also said around a fifth of Palestinian rockets launched since Friday had fallen short within Gaza due to misfires, causing fatalities.