Abbas said "the Israelis want chaos and we know it but we won't let them". "We want peace and freedom for our prisoners and no matter how hard they try to drag us into their schemes, we will not be dragged," he added.
More than 3,000 Palestinian prisoners, held in Israeli regime jails with no trials and charges, started a hunger strike on Sunday to protest death of a fellow prisoner during interrogations in regime’s Megiddo prison.
Palestinian officials hold Israel responsible for death of Arafat Jararat, while his autopsy report showed he was tortured to death.
"We lost Arafat Jaradat who was arrested and came back in a coffin and this cannot pass lightly," Abbas asserted.