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Abbas urges France to help pressure Hamas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urges France to help lobby Hamas’s allies Qatar and Turkey to pressure the group into accepting a truce with Israel, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says, according to AFP.
Abbas met with Fabius at Cairo airport before leaving for Turkey.
“There can be influences that I hope can let Hamas accept the [Egyptian] ceasefire that it has refused,” Fabius says.
Fabius adds that he called Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah to discuss the ceasefire.
“He said that in his view, Hamas hopes for there to be negotiation points before a ceasefire, especially relating to the blockade [of the Gaza Strip],” Fabius says.
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