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Jordanian King Abdullah II in the West Bank to meet Abbas

2022-03-28T10:12:08.940Z


King Abdullah II of Jordan arrived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday March 28 to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud...


King Abdullah II of Jordan arrived Monday, March 28 in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the presidency said, at a time when an unprecedented meeting is being held in Israel between American and Arab ministers.

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This rare trip by the Jordanian king to Ramallah, the first since 2017, follows a meeting on Sunday between Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The visit of the Jordanian king, which comes a few days before Ramadan, the month of Muslim fasting due to begin at the end of the week, is seen as an attempt to ease tensions in the Palestinian Territories.

Palestinian officials have repeatedly warned that the situation in the West Bank is about to "

explode

".

About 475,000 Israelis reside there in settlements, deemed illegal under international law.

Some 2.9 million Palestinians also live in the West Bank.

Normalize relationships

Israel has occupied this territory since 1967, which was then in the hands of Jordan.

Amman signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, the second Arab country to do so after Egypt in 1979. Other Arab countries have recently normalized relations with the Jewish state, breaking with decades of Arab consensus conditioning the establishment of relations with Israel with the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The UAE normalized relations with Israel in 2020 under a series of US-brokered agreements.

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Bahrain and Morocco followed suit.

The heads of diplomacy from these three countries have been meeting since Sunday for an unprecedented two-day meeting in the Israeli Negev desert (south) with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid.

The Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, considered that the meeting described as “

historic

” by the Jewish state, served to “

legitimize the crimes

” of the latter and to “

integrate

” it in the region .

, which constitutes “

a danger

”.

Source: lefigaro

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