Abbas urges Hamas to expedite prisoner swap deal

The President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas has Wednesday called on Hamas movement to quickly complete a prisoner swap deal in order to protect Palestinian people and avoid an attack on Rafah city,WAFA news agency reported.

“In the face of the comprehensive war being waged against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, we call on the Hamas movement to quickly complete prisoner swap deal to spare Palestinian people the scourge of another catastrophe with ominous consequences, no less dangerous than the Nakba of 1948, and to avoid the occupation’s attack on the city of Rafah, which will lead to thousands of victims, suffering and displacement for our people,” the President said.

President Abbas called on the US administration and the Arab nations to work seriously to complete the prisoner swap deal as quickly as possible, in order to “spare the Palestinian people the scourge of this devastating war.”