Leaders from the Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Islamic
Jihad slammed Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for
purportedly suggesting that Arab states intervene in Gaza with military
force resembling their action in Yemen.
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| Abbas criticized by Hamas and Islamic Jihad |
Abbas made the suggestion during his remarks at the Arab League
summit in Egypt, where he praised the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen as
“acceptable and advisable” and said that “there are other cases, there
are other countries suffering from division and discord.”
“We suffer from division. We were the first to suffer from division,”
Abbas said, in reference to the split between the PA-controlled West
Bank and Hamas-controlled Gaza.
“Abbas had previously described Gaza as a rebellious region and seeks
to pit the world against his own people, not to mention that he works
with the Israelis against his Palestinians,” Hamas member Mushir
al-Masri said at a rally against Abbas in northern Gaza on Sunday
evening, the Turkish state-runAnadolu Agency reported.
Dawood Shehad, a spokesperson from Islamic Jihad, said Abbas’s
statements are “poisonous and to destroy every effort towards national
unity and internal cohesion.”
“Gaza will never become a separate entity from the rest of Palestine,
and the conspiracy Abbas is warning of is actually of his own making,”
Shehab said, according to the Anadolu Agency.
At the Arab League summit, Arab
leaders agreed to form a joint military force to confront regional
threats such as the Islamic State terror group and the Iranian-backed
Houthi rebels in Yemen
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