President Donald Trump and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas deliver remarks in Bethlehem on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (Screen grab from CNN)

(CNSNews.com) – “Our society can have no tolerance for this continuation of bloodshed. We cannot stand a moment longer for the slaughter of innocent people,” President Trump said Tuesday, standing side by side with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem.

The president offered his prayers to the people of Manchester, England, where a terrorist killed at least 22 people and injured dozens of others attending an Ariana Grande concert Monday night.

Trump called terrorists “evil losers”:

We stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom. So many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives, murdered by evil losers in life,” Trump said. I won’t call them monsters, because they would like that term. They would think that’s a great name. I will call them, from now on, losers, because that’s what they are. They’re losers. And we’ll have more of them, but they’re losers. Just remember that.

“This is what I’ve spent these last few days talking about, Trump continued. “Our society can have no tolerance for this continuation of bloodshed. We cannot stand a moment longer for the slaughter of innocent people.

“And in today’s attack, it was mostly innocent children. The terrorists and extremists, and those who give them aid and comfort, must be driven out from our society forever.

"This wicked ideology must be obliterated – and I mean completely obliterated."

Trump called on “all civilized nations” to join together in protecting human life “and the sacred right of our citizens to live in safety and peace.”

He thanked the Palestinians and Abbas for hosting him and said he is “committed” to trying to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. “President Abbas assures me that he’s ready to work toward that goal in good faith, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised the same. I look forward to working with these leaders toward a lasting peace.”

Trump also called it “interesting” that his meeting with Abbas took place “on this very horrible morning of death to innocent young people. Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded,” Trump said.

Palestinian President Abbas also condemend the "horrible terrorist attack" in Manchester and offered his "condolences" to the British people.



Abbas told Trump that their meeting at the White House earlier this month has given all the nations across the region so much hope for the "long awaited dream" of lasting peace.



Abbas said the freedom and independence of the Palestinian people is the key to peace and stability in the world: And he outlined his goal of a "two-state solutiom along the borders of 1967" for the "state of Palestine" with its capital as East Jerusalem.



Our fundamental problem is with the occupation and settlements and the failure of Israel to recognize the state of Palestine in the same way that we recognize it, Abbas said. "The problem is not between us and Judaism, it's between us and occupation."