Hamas blasts Abbas for helping in 'siege' on Gaza

Hamas accuses Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of helping maintain the “siege” of Gaza., after his government rejected solutions put forward by the terror group to solve the ongoing electricity crisis in the Strip.

“Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Dr. Rami Hamdallah continue to insist on the their role in completing the siege of our people in Gaza and crushing them through many ways and mean, by ignoring all the efforts and solutions…to resolve the electricity crisis and end the suffering of the besieged Gaza Strip,” says Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum in a statement on the group’s official website.

— Dov Lieber