After speaking with Defense Minister Gantz, Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen called President Yitzhak Herzog this evening (Tuesday) and wished him and the citizens of Israel a happy new year on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah.
"In the conversation, the president of the country emphasized the need to maintain and promote neighborly relations between the nations, and the importance of joint activity to calm and curb violence and extremist forces. In their conversation, the two expressed hope that in the new year civil and security cooperation will be increased and security peace will be returned to Leno," the president's house said.
Abu Mazen and Herzog at their meeting in 2015, photo: AFP
Abu Mazen spoke last night with Defense Minister Benny Gantz and wished him and the citizens of Israel a happy new year.
The phone call with Gantz came against the backdrop of security tensions in Judea and Samaria.
Gantz talked with Abu Mazen about the need to maintain stability in the area.
On the other hand, the terrorist organization Hamas was outraged by the phone call.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Kassem wrote that "the blessing of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the Zionist Minister of War is a provocation towards the feelings of the masses of the Palestinian people."
On the eve of the Palestinian Authority's chairman's return from his speech at the UN General Assembly, and against the background of the security escalation, Palestinian officials told "Israel Today" that one of the courses of action being considered on the Palestinian side is the implementation of an initiative by the Palestinian security forces to arrest armed men in northern Judea and Samaria.
Gantz and Abu Mazen.
A conversation in the shadow of security tensions, photo: AFP
In his speech at the UN on Friday, Abu Mazen referred to Lapid's words regarding the two-state solution. The unilateral measures that destroy this solution," said the authority's chairman.
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