Abbas: Israel treats Palestinian prisoners in “the most terrible way”
Headline: “President [Abbas] to Kerry: ‘Yes to negotiations – after stopping the settlement and releasing the prisoners’”
“President Abbas emphasized that ‘the Palestinians are committed to establishing a peace based on the international institutions’ decisions, in order to establish an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, whose capital is East Jerusalem.’ This was said during his meeting in the Presidential residence in the city of Ramallah with a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He told the guest delegation that: ‘The Palestinian people are peaceful and willing to cooperate with all international efforts to revive the peace process,’ but he emphasized that the settlement poses a red-line that cannot be agreed to…
He also spoke about ‘The suffering of the Palestinian prisoners in the occupation’s prisons, who are treated in the most terrible way by the occupation.’"
“President Abbas emphasized that ‘the Palestinians are committed to establishing a peace based on the international institutions’ decisions, in order to establish an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, whose capital is East Jerusalem.’ This was said during his meeting in the Presidential residence in the city of Ramallah with a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He told the guest delegation that: ‘The Palestinian people are peaceful and willing to cooperate with all international efforts to revive the peace process,’ but he emphasized that the settlement poses a red-line that cannot be agreed to…
He also spoke about ‘The suffering of the Palestinian prisoners in the occupation’s prisons, who are treated in the most terrible way by the occupation.’"