On January 5, 2023, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas spoke to Karim Yunis, an Israeli-Arab terrorist and a member of Fatah’s Central Committee who was just released from Israeli prison. Abbas congratulated him on his release and said that Palestinians will not make any concessions regarding the prisoners. The video of the phone call was posted on Abbas’s official Facebook page.

On January 19, 2023, Abbas also spoke to Israeli-Arab terrorist Maher Yunis to congratulate him upon his release. Abbas said: “You and Karim are dignitaries of the Palestinian people.” Video of this phone call was posted on the Facebook page of Palestine TV.

Karim and Maher Yunis are two cousins from the Israeli town of ‘Ara and were recently released after serving 40 years in prison for murdering an Israeli soldier named Avraham Bromberg in 1980.