By DPA
Ramallah : Eleven days before a key Middle East conference in the US, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Israelis Thursday to support peace moves, saying that continued occupation would not bring them security.
“I want, on this day, to address the people of Israel and their government and tell them that we are determined to achieve a genuine peace for the sake of our future generations,” Abbas said in a radio address.
Abbas, of the moderate Fatah movement, slammed the rival Islamic Hamas controlling Gaza for its killing of seven civilians during a rally in Gaza City Monday, commemorating the third anniversary of Arafat’s death.
He added that he would travel to Saudi Arabia Friday for talks with King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on the upcoming conference in Annapolis, Maryland.