Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has introduced boycotting the US and its officers, nevertheless, he has continued holding secret conferences with US officers in Ramallah, The Occasions of Israel revealed on Friday.
Abbas has additionally ordered all Palestinian officers to not meet with the People following the closure of the US Consulate in occupied Jerusalem in 2018.
A PA official instructed The Occasions of Israel that conferences with US officers began shortly after President Joe Biden’s administration introduced that it will reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem.
The PA severed ties with the Trump administration, which closed the consulate, contemplating the closure as a downgrading of relations with Palestinians.
Through the Israeli offensive on Gaza, the US turned pissed off because of its incapability to simply have interaction with the Palestinians. Due to this fact, based on The Occasions of Israel, days after the offensive, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the area and notified Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas about Biden’s transfer.
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As well as, The Times of Israel reported that Blinken dispatched former Head of the Mission Michael Ratney to Jerusalem to function cost d’affaires of the embassy till a full-time ambassador arrives.
An knowledgeable official reported that Ratney has longstanding ties with senior members of the PA and leveraged these relations to induce Abbas to finish his boycott of the US Embassy, an official accustomed to the matter disclosed.
US and Palestinian officers stated that Abbas had privately met in Ramallah with Ratney and Palestinian Affairs Unit Chief George Noll a number of occasions since Could to debate the development of US-Palestinian bilateral ties.
