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EXPLAINER: Why are Palestinians protesting against Abbas?

by Joseph Krauss
| June 30, 2021 12:09 AM

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets in recent days to protest against President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, whose security forces and supporters have violently dispersed them.

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