28 September 2011 - 20:30

PA president Mahmoud Abbas phoned the Israeli occupation president Simon Peres to wish him a happy new year on the eve of the Jewish new year, while the occupation sealed the West Bank for four days starting Wednesday evening.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - PA president Mahmoud Abbas phoned the Israeli occupation president Simon Peres to wish him a happy new year on the eve of the Jewish new year, while the occupation sealed the West Bank for four days starting Wednesday evening.PA press sources said that Abbas expressed best wishes to Peres and his “nation”, on the occasion of Jewish holidays.This comes at a time when Israeli occupation authorities imposed a hermetic closure on the West Bank from Wednesday to Saturday. Abbas had a number of meetings with Shimon Peres in recent months to discuss the stalled peace process./129