
A  plan to rid Gaza and the West Bank of Israeli presence will be  presented to the UN Security Council in about two weeks time, Israel  Radio reported Sunday, quoting an unnamed Palestinian source. 
 
 The source said that they are planning to present the proposal first to Mahmoud Abbas and then work out technical details.
 
 On Friday, during his speech at the UN General Assembly,  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that without a “firm  timetable” in place to end the Israeli presence in Gaza and the West  Bank, there’s no value in continuing peace talks. 
 
 "It's high time for this settlement occupation to end now," Abbas  told the 193-member world body, which voted overwhelmingly in 2012 to  grant the Palestinians de facto statehood by upgrading their UN status  from "entity" to "non-member state." This also made the Palestinians  eligible to apply for inclusion in the Rome Statute, opening them up to  join the International Criminal Court, and possibly bring war crimes  charges against Israel.
 
 In what appears to be a new phase in the Palestinian diplomatic  drive for unilateral recognition of statehood, Abbas said that he would  seek the approval of the Security Council for a draft resolution that  establishes a timetable for independence.