'Abbas ordered crackdown on Palestinians who sold property to Jews'
This was the first time that a senior Ramallah official had admitted that the crackdown on Palestinian suspects was being carried out on direct orders from Abbas himself.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of the death of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, November 11, 2018(photo credit: MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS)ByKHALED ABU TOAMEHUpdated: