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Abbas calls for international protection in Gaza

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13-07-2014 | 09:55

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The Israeli offensive should be stopped, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday (July 13) as he met with United Nations special envoy Robert Serry in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Abbas handed Serry a letter for the attention of the United Nations Secretary General.

"The Palestinian leadership is in a continuous meeting, in particular the joint command of the executive and central committees. Today they took a decision to call for international protection for the Palestinian lands and nation," Abbas said.

Israel says a ground invasion of Gaza remains an option, and it has already mobilised more than 30,000 reservists to do so, but most attacks have so far been from the air, hitting some 1,200 targets in the territory.

"Israel went deeper in everything and its offensive on the Palestinian nation should be stopped," Abbas added.

International pressure on both sides for a return to calm has increased, with the U.N. Security Council calling for a cessation of hostilities and Western foreign ministers due to meet on Sunday to weigh strategy.

Hostilities along the Israel-Gaza frontier first intensified last month after Israeli forces arrested hundreds of Hamas activists in the Israeli-occupied West Bank following the abduction there of three Jewish teenagers who were later found killed. A Palestinian youth was then killed in Jerusalem in a suspected Israeli revenge attack.

Despite intensified Israeli military action - which included a commando raid overnight in what was Israel's first reported ground action in Gaza during the current fighting - militants continued to launch rocket after rocket across the border.

The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 160 Palestinians, including about 135 civilians - among them some 30 children, have been killed six days of warfare, and more than 1,000 have been wounded.

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