Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will attend a mass national rally in Paris on Sunday to pay tribute to the 17 victims of Islamist attacks there this week, including four people killed at a Jewish supermarket, a diplomatic source said.
Abbas will be joined by many world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the rally which is expected to draw more than a million people.
Earlier Saturday, Abbas called French president Francois Hollande to offer condolences over the attacks.
“‘At this solemn moment of tragedy our hearts and minds are with you in the face of terrorism that has no religion,” Abbas said according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency “The entire Palestinian people are pained by what has taken place.”
(AFP and Times of Israel staff)
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