This was stated by the president of the PNA, Mahmud Abbas in an interview with l'Osservatore Romano, underlining that "the international community has the responsibility to stop the Zionist regime, obliging it to implement the decisions of international legitimacy and to respect the signed agreements, putting an end to the Zionist occupation of the land of the State of Palestine with its capital, East Jerusalem, and the return to the borders of 1967. In the current reality, i.e. that of the single state, what dominates is instead the apartheid system, contrary to the law international ”. "We are against violence, especially if it is aimed at innocent civilians," adds Mahmud Abbas. “The Gaza Strip is an essential and important part of the independent Palestinian state and the Palestinian national project.