Bennett tells Abbas to forget about more prisoner releases

6 October 2015, 5:57 pm

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PA President Mahmoud Abbas can “forget about” the release of Palestinian prisoners, says Jewish Home leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett.

Speaking at his party’s faction meeting in the Old City of Jerusalem, held where a Palestinian terrorist stabbed and killed two Israeli Jews on Saturday, Bennett is responding to Abbas, who according to Israeli reports called on his security forces to rein in violence while at the same time asking Israel to stop construction in the settlements and release Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

“I can say to him quite clearly – forget about it. Not gonna happen. No more terrorists will be released from Israeli jails, we’re going to change direction,” Bennett says.