Palestinian president has said the the United States is the only country capable of stopping an Israeli invasion of Rafah.
Speaking at a summit in Riyadh attended by a host of Gaza mediators, Mahmud Abbas said: “We appeal to the United States of America to ask Israel to stop the Rafah operation.”
Abbas warned that it would harm and displace civilians, and be the biggest disaster in the history of the Palestinian people.
Meanwhile, police have arrested 200 as pro-Palestinian camps at three US universities cleared.
Police nabbed about 200 people at three US universities in a day as they cleared pro-Palestinian camps in the fresh campus clashes sparked by protests over Israel’s offensive on Gaza.
On the East Coast, police arrested about 100 people in Boston while clearing a protest camp at Northeastern University as the social media showing security forces in riot gear and cops loading tents onto the back of a truck.
At the Arizona State University, police nabbed 69 students for trespassing after the group set up an “unauthorised encampment” on campus.
Arizona State officials claimed that the protest group ‘most of whom were not ASU students, faculty or staff’ had set up a camp and then ignored orders to disperse.
