Abbas spoke on Monday during the first official UN commemoration of the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now occupied territories 75 years ago.
More than 760,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in 1948 when the Israeli regime was created, an event Palestinians call Nakba -or catastrophe- and marked each year on May 15.
In an hour-long emotion-filled speech, Abbas asked the world’s nations why more than 1,000 resolutions adopted by UN bodies regarding the Palestinians had never been implemented, Al Jazeera reported.
He held up a letter from the Israeli regime’s foreign minister, Moshe Sharett, after resolutions were adopted in 1947 and 1948 promising to implement them and said, “Either they do respect these obligations, or they stop becoming a member.”
Abbas also lashed out at Israel for having “never fulfilled its obligations and the prerequisites for its membership” of the United Nations.
The Palestinian president counted “around 1,000 resolutions” adopted by the UN General Assembly, Security Council and Human Rights Council related to Israel. “To date, not one single resolution was implemented,” he said.
Abbas added that Nakba “did not start in 1948 and it did not stop after that date”.
The UN is commemorating Nakba at its headquarters in New York City this year for the first time after a resolution was passed in November.
UN member states expressed support for the Palestinian people and their cause on social media.