Abbas spokesperson: US responsible for Mawasi 'massacre'

The official spokesperson for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said the US administration is responsible for the Israeli attack on Mawasi on Saturday.  Over 70 people, including women and children, are thought to have been killed in the strike.

"The US administration bears the responsibility for this heinous massacre, which claimed the lives of hundreds of our children, women, and elderly," Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement.

He added that the administration's continued provision of financial and military support to Israel violates "international legitimacy resolutions" and emboldens the country to "commit bloody massacres against our people every day".

Abu Rudeineh called on the UN Security Council "to intervene immediately to stop these bloody massacres and compel the occupation authorities to immediately cease all these actions that violate all international legitimacy resolutions".