Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Jordan on Friday, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Hussein Al-Sheikh said early Thursday morning.
The Sheikh added, previously via the “X” platform, “Twitter”, that Abbas will also meet with Jordanian King Abdullah in Amman on Thursday.
The US State Department said that Blinken will travel to Israel and Jordan, where he will meet high-level officials.
The British Sky News network said that Blinken will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, and Jordanian King Abdullah II and the Palestinian President in Amman.
Four days ago, Abbas and Blinken spoke by phone, with the Palestinian president informing the American minister that “the continued injustice and oppression to which our people are subjected is what is pushing things towards explosion.”
He stressed that the reason for the ongoing escalation “is the practices of the colonialists and Israeli occupation forces, and the aggression against Islamic and Christian sanctities.”
In return, Blinken reaffirmed the United States’ “unequivocal condemnation of the terrorist attacks launched by Hamas against Israel.”
He urged the Palestinian Authority to follow up and strengthen measures aimed at restoring calm and stability in the West Bank.
The latest developments and repercussions of the Gaza attacks
The escalation began with Hamas launching dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. The Israeli army then announced that a number of Palestinian militants had infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip. In response, the Israeli army launched a military operation called “Iron Swords”, against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Confrontations between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces continue for the sixth day in a row. Palestine: The death toll in Gaza rose to 1,200 people on Wednesday, and more than 5,600 were injured. Israel: The number of Israeli deaths since Saturday morning rose to more than 1,200 dead, in addition to more than 3,007 injured. The United Nations announced on Thursday that more than 338,000 people were forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip.
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2023-10-12 04:31:57
