Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Monday on the international community to exert more efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East according to a French initiative.

"The international community is required today more than any time in the past to expand its participation to achieve peace and provide means to protect the Palestinians," Abbas told the UN climate change summit, currently held in Paris.

He stressed that the Palestinian people will not accept 'temporary or partial solutions.'

"The continued Israeli violation to laws pertaining to the preservation of environment poses a main challenge to our efforts," Abbas said.

"Israel seizes our natural resources, destroys our crops, uproots our trees, does not allow us to complete our vital infrastructure, dumps waste in our lands and pollutes our underground water as part of its racial discrimination regime that violates international laws," he pointed out. (MENA)

He went on saying that Palestine, as a member of several international bodies and treaties, will continue efforts to join the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Sources: MENA