Mahmoud Abbas called for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks following Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. “We stretch our hand to Israel with an offer of true peace,” the Palestinian Authority president said Tuesday in his first broadcast address since Israeli troops completed a pullout from Gaza this week.
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