Abbas demands emergency UN meeting, says Israel wiping out entire neighbourhoods

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an urgent UN Security Council session to halt what he described as Israel’s relentless assault on the Palestinian people and the destruction of entire residential areas in the refugee camps of Jenin and Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank.

A statement from Abbas’ office accused Israeli forces of forcing civilians from their homes in Tammun and the al-Faraa refugee camp in Tubas, systematically dismantling infrastructure, and committing widespread atrocities—including killing dozens, injuring hundreds, detaining thousands, and enabling settler violence that has torched Palestinian homes and property in an attempt to drive them from their land.