Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tonight claimed Israel and the US were responsible for an attack that killed dozens of people in the Gaza Strip today, but also blamed Hamas for the ongoing war in the Palestinian enclave. The statement indicates growing tension between Abbas’s Fatah and Islamist Hamas, which in turn accuses the Palestinian president of siding with Israel. “The Palestinian presidency condemns the massacre and holds the Israeli government responsible, as well as the United States, which provides all kinds of support to the occupation (force) and its crimes,” the statement issued by Abbas’s office reads. But Abbas, who retains limited powers in the occupied West Bank, also placed some blame on Hamas, whose attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, sparked the war in Gaza. “The presidency sees that by avoiding national unity and giving pretexts to the occupying state, […]
Source: News Beast
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