Palestinian envoy to the UN says an independent Palestinian state is the only path to peace [SOUND]

# Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has called for the full withdrawal of Israel from Gaza. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Sunday on Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City. Mansour accused Israel of prolonging the war not to end Hamas rule but to prevent independent Palestinian statehood. He says Israel’s goal is the destruction of the Palestinian people through forced transfer and massacres, to facilitate its annexation of the land: