PA’s Abbas calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on IDF West Bank op

By ToI Staff and AFP 2 February 2025, 10:06 pm

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Smoke rises following an explosion detonated by the Israeli army, which said it was destroying buildings used by Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank Jenin refugee camp, February 2, 2025. (AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency UN Security Council session on the “ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people” in the northern West Bank, where the IDF is conducting a major counterterrorism operation.

According to the PA-affiliated Wafa news agency, Abbas’s request to the UNSC demands that it put an end to Israel’s “systemic destruction of the infrastructure” in the West Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarem, Tamoun, and Tubas, and to the “policy of killing” that he asserts Israel has implemented throughout the counterterrorism operation.

Wafa reports that Abbas has also called on US President Donald Trump and his administration to intervene, and force the IDF to halt its operations in the West Bank.

Separately, the PA foreign ministry condemns the IDF’s destruction of buildings in Jenin earlier today.

The IDF said that the 23 buildings it demolished had been used by terror operatives.

The ministry “condemns, in the strongest terms, the bombings committed by the Israeli occupation forces… including their action today, Sunday, to blow up large neighborhoods of the Jenin camp,” it says in a statement, describing it as a “brutal scene.”