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Thursday, August 30, 2018
Abbas spokesman: Greenblatt interfering in ‘internal Palestinian affairs’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman accuses a senior White House official of interfering in “internal Palestinian affairs.”
In a statement earlier, Jason Greenblatt, the White House special representative for international negotiations, said the PA should take responsibility for the Gaza Strip, but added that if the Ramallah-based government does not take action to make that a reality, other parties will “fill the void.”
“We consider these statements completely unacceptable intervention by the American administration in internal Palestinian affairs,” Nabil Abu Rudeinah says in comments published on the official PA news site Wafa. “We will fight them just as we have fought [Washington’s proposed peace plan].”
— Adam Rasgon
The Times of Israel Community.