The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, urged the Militant Hamas group on Wednesday, April 23, to free the hostages that still stop in Gaza, describing it from the main factor that feeds Israeli attacks in the territory.
“Hamas has apologized for criminal occupation for committing his crimes in the Gaza Strip, the most prominent is hostage possession,” Abbas said at a meeting in Ramallah. “I am the one who pays the price, our people are paying the price, not Israel. My brother, just giving them.”
“There are deaths every day. Why? [Hamas] Refusing to deliver to the American hostages, “said the Palestinian leader, referring to Edan Alexander, who, according to reports, was on a host list that Israel had asked to be released in a proposal that was recently rejected by Hamas. The hard Arab epithet in Hamas.
Bassem Naim, a high Hamas official, condemned Abbas’s comments, calling them “insulting.” “Abbas continues to describe a significant and comprehensive part of his own people, he uses derogatory language,” Naim said. “Abbas repeatedly presents and suspiciously the fault of the crimes of the occupation and belongs to our people of our people.”
The ties between the FATAH and Hamas party have been marked by deep political and ideological divisions for almost two decades. Abbas and his Palestinian authority have often accused Hamas of undermining the Palestinian unit, while Hamas has criticized the president for collaborating with Israel and taking energetic measures against dissent in the West Bank.
At least 18 people were killed through the Gaza Strip on Wednesday by Israeli strikes, according to rescuers, while Germany, France and Great Britain urged Israel to finish their blockade in aid that enters the Besanter territory. Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza on March 18, ending the fire that had largely stopped hostilities and resulted in the launch of 33 hostages from Gaza and approximately 1,800 Palestinians of Israeli.
The conversations aimed at reaching a new fire so far have failed to produce progress, and a delegation of Hamas is currently in Cairo for the negotiations reworked with Egyptian mediators and Qatari.
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