Abbas to Fatah: Israel will leave settlements eventually

Abbas tells crowd at the Fatah congress in Ramallah to have patience, as Israel will leave its West Bank settlements eventually.

“Sharon left Gaza even though he considered it sacred land,” he says, referring to then-prime minister Ariel Sharon’s evacuation of the settlements in the Gaza Strip in 2005.

 

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