PA rejects report that Abbas was KGB agent

A senior official in the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday night rejected the report on Channel 1 News which said that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent who spied against Syria.

"We are not surprised by the Israeli campaign against Abbas. Israel has already argued in the past that Haj Amin al-Husseini helped Hitler and the Nazis," the official told the Ma'an news agency.