Holocaust ‘ugliest crime’ of modern history: Mahmud Abbas
Abbas' comments were published in a local Israel newspaper
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-04-27 14:44 GMT
Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called the Holocaust "the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history."
His comments, published on Sunday by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA, marked a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide.
Some 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust.
Abbas' comments were published just hours before Israel's annual memorial for Holocaust victims.