The body of Abu al-Abbas will arrive in Syria today

The charge de affairs at the Palestinian representation office in Baghdad, Dalil Qassouos, said yesterday that the body of Muhammad Abbas ( Abu al-Abbas) who died in one American detention camp in Iraq, two weeks before, will arrive by air today to Damascus in a plane belongs to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Qassouos added that Israel refused a request from the Palestinian authority to return him back to the Palestinian territories instead of Syria.