Tag: Abbas

Abbas urges Hamas to agree Gaza deal ‘quickly’: Palestinian news agency

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas pressed the militant group Hamas on Wednesday to agree a Gaza deal quickly to avoid “dire consequences”, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. “We call on the Hamas movement to quickly complete a prisoner deal, to spare our Palestinian people from the calamity of another catastrophic event with dire consequences, no less dangerous than the Nakba of 1948,” Abbas said. The president […]

Palestinian president Abbas suffering from pneumonia, condition improving: officials

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is suffering from pneumonia but his condition is improving, officials said late Monday. “I visited President Abbas in the hospital tonight. He suffers from pneumonia and is treated with antibiotics,” Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab member of parliament, said on Twitter, adding that the 83-year-old’s condition had “markedly improved”. Appearing on official media, Saed Sarahna, the head of the Istishari Arab Hospital near Ramallah in the […]