The president of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas, calls on Hamas to release the hostages who are still detained and to hand over the weapons to the Palestinian authority. He emphasizes that the terror group ‘the Gaza Strip will not rule’ after the ongoing war is over.
During a meeting in Amman with the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Abbas also called for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and unhindered access to humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, according to the PA official news agency.