An-Najah News - President Mahmoud Abbas mourned he Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who passed away this afternoon.

The president described him as "the wise leader and the big brother of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause."

 the President said"Palestine has lost with his departure an Arab leader and a leader of humanity who spent his life in the service of his people, his nation and all humanity, and always stood by our national cause, with our Palestinian people, and the just causes of his nation," 

"Our loss of this great Arab leader in this sensitive period of our history is a great loss," he added.