Abbas refuses to stop paying terrorist salaries: “Impossible that we would relinquish the most sanctified thing we have… the Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners”
Official PA TV News
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The money of the Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners is still in Israel’s hands… We have told them that any solution that excludes the Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners – forget about it completely… It is also absolutely impossible that we would relinquish the most sanctified thing we have, and that is the Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners.”
Abbas made this statement at a PLO Executive Committee meeting.