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From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Abbas adviser: Annexation will cause unprecedented violence, streets are boiling
An adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas tells Kan news that if Israel moves forward with plans to annex parts of the West Bank it will lead to an unprecedented wave of violence.
“You don’t know how the Palestinian street is boiling,” Mahmoud al-Habbash says. “Every home, every young person… can turn into a powder keg if Israel carries out the annexation. When a person loses hope for peace and justice he can turn into a bomb.
“We are not making threats,” he says. “But this is the reality.”
He says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is pushing the region to an explosion… [he] is opening the gates of violence.”
