State of Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly Thursday morning through a pre-recorded video message, the second year in a row he had been forced to do so because the United States refused to grant visas to himself or to people from his government.

His message, however, could not be silenced. Horrors have been inflicted already on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, but “today, we warn of an even greater danger ahead, one that requires international action to address it. The danger is no longer limited to undermining the two-state solution and preventing the realization of the Palestinian state. It has now come to threaten the very life and existence of the Palestinian people on their homeland.

“What is taking place in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem are not isolated incidents, but rather a malicious colonial scheme aimed at making the lives of Palestinians more difficult in their homeland and forcing them to leave it,” he charged.

“We warn you today: do not allow another Nakba to occur. Do not allow further massacres like those that occurred in 1948. Do not allow terrorist gangs protected by the Israeli occupation forces to burn Palestinian homes while their occupants are sleeping inside them. Do not allow our children to live afraid and threatened.