No conspiracy to kill Palestinian PM: Abbas

Ramallah (West Bank), Dec 16: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today denied there was any conspiracy to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh after the convoy of the Hamas leader came under attack this week.

''The facts were turned upside down to say there was a conspiracy,'' Abbas said in a speech broadcast live on Palestine TV. He was commenting publicly for the first time on days of growing tensions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Reuters