Jerusalem – The Palestinian president is expressing his sadness over the death of Shimon Peres.
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In a statement, Mahmoud Abbas said he has sent a condolence letter to Peres’ family expressing “sorrow and sympathy.”
He called Peres a partner in reaching a “peace of the brave” with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The three men shared the 1994 Nobel Peace prize for reaching the Oslo interim peace accord.
Abbas said Peres “exerted persistent efforts to reach a just peace from the Oslo agreement until the final moments of his life.”