Palestinian President urges world to ‘compel’ Israel to halt violence in Gaza

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for the international community to “compel” Israel to end its “aggression” in Gaza, after a wave of Israeli strikes overnight killed more than 400 people. Mr Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh condemned the strikes in a statement and called on “the international community to compel the occupation to stop its aggression against our people everywhere in the Gaza Strip”. The Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa issued a similar call during a Palestinian Authority cabinet meeting.