{"id":6044,"date":"2023-10-16T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2023-10-16T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:59:28","slug":"palestines-mahmoud-abbas-say-hamas-actions-do-not-represent-palestinians-then-seems-to-backtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/palestines-mahmoud-abbas-say-hamas-actions-do-not-represent-palestinians-then-seems-to-backtrack\/6044\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine\u2019s Mahmoud Abbas say Hamas actions do not represent Palestinians, then seems to backtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas critised the attack carried out by Hamas, on Sunday, but then seemingly walked the comment back, when it was removed from a report in the PA\u2019s mouthpiece news agency WAFA.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report in WAFA, Abbas had initially stated to Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro that Hamas\u2019s policies and actions \u201cdo not represent\u201d the people of Palestine. He added that only Palestine Liberation Organisation is a legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>However, that statement was later removed so that Hamas was no longer mentioned in the statement. The new edit now reads, PLO is \u201cthe sole legitimate representative of Palestinian people, and not the policies of any other organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president also called upon both the sides to release the \u201cprisoners and detainees\u201d and reiterated his claim that the order to evacuate Gaza would result in a \u201csecond Nakba,\u201d meaning \u201ccatastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on Saturday, Abbas spoke to President Joe Biden\u00a0 and according to a U.S. readout, he briefed Biden regarding efforts to bring aid to Palestinian people, especially in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas critised the attack carried out by Hamas, on Sunday, but then seemingly walked the comment\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":6070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[1395,536],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-israel-war","tag-palestine"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}