PA chief says millions of Palestinian ‘fighters’ will enter al-Quds

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says millions of Palestinian “fighters” will one day enter al-Quds, as the occupied territories belong to the Palestinians and they shall remain there forever.

“We shall enter Jerusalem — millions of fighters! We shall enter it! All of us, the entire Palestinian people, the entire Arab nation, the Islamic nation, and the Christian nation… They shall all enter al-Quds,” Abbas has said in an address to a group of Palestinians during his visit to Jalazone Refugee Camp near Ramallah earlier this month, a video of which was uploaded to his Facebook page.

He made the comment in reaction to the audiences who were chanting "To al-Quds we march! Martyrs by the millions!"

"No matter how many houses and how many illegal settlements they declare that they [plan to build] here and there – they shall all be destroyed, Allah willing. They will all go to the garbage bin of history,” Abbas says.

He then argues that the Palestinians are descended from the people of ancient Canaan, saying, "This land belongs to the people who live on it. It belongs to the Canaanites, who lived here 5,000 years ago. We are the Canaanites!”

In his address, the PA president also lashes out at the recent international conferences held in Poland and Bahrain, where the US unveiled the financial part of what the Donald Trump administration calls the “Deal of the Century”, and condemns the labeling of Palestinian martyrs as “terrorists”.

“We will not accept their designation of our martyrs as terrorists. Our martyrs are the martyrs of the homeland," Abbas notes.

“We will not allow them to deduct a single penny from their money. All the money will go back to them, because the martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners are the most sacred things we have.”

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