The Palestinian Authority on Saturday severed security ties with the United States and Israel following the introduction of President Trump’s Middle East peace plan earlier in the week.
“We’ve informed the Israeli side…that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States including security ties,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Reuters reports.
Trump consulted with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz – Netanyahu’s political rival – in making the plan, but failed to include Palestine in the discussions.
Abbas had already flatly rejected Trump’s plan, describing it as “nonsense.”
Palestine’s leader also said that he denied an offer to talk on the phone with Trump and refused to accept a letter written by him as well.
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