One Israeli soldier was moderately wounded and six others lightly injured Thursday night by a roadside bomb activated by Palestinians in Nablus, Ynetnews reported. Palestinians threw the bomb at the Israeli force operating in the Balata refugee camp.
Meanwhile, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that the planned national unity government will recognize Israel. "Any future Palestinian government" would honor all past agreements the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority have committed to," he told the 92-nation UN General Assembly.
These include letters between the Palestinians and Israel in which the PLO agreed to recognize Israel, renounce violence and commit to negotiations aimed at an independent Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel, he said.
Abbas said that if a unity government led to a resumption of peace talks, the negotiations would be under the jurisdiction of the PLO, which he heads. In addition, any results would be submitted either to a national referendum or the Palestinian National Council. "Any future government will commit to imposing security and order, to ending the phenomena of multiple militias, indiscipline and chaos, and to the rule of law," he said.
The commitments "should suffice to lift the unjust siege imposed on our people, which has inflicted extensive damage on our society, its livelihood and the means of its growth and development," he said.
