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Monday, March 28, 2022
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Monday, March 28, 2022
Jordan’s king arrives in Ramallah to meet with Abbas on rare West Bank trip
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (R) welcomes King Abdullah II of Jordan (L) accompanied by Crown Prince Hussein (C), ahead of a meeting in Ramallah in the West Bank, on March 28, 2022. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Jordan’s King Abdullah II arrives in Ramallah to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in his first trip to the West Bank since 2017.
Abdullah’s visit comes as foreign ministers from four Arab states participated in an unprecedented meeting hosted in Israel, a gathering Israel hailed as “historic,” following a series of normalization agreements last year, which angered the Palestinians.
The visit also comes less than a week before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month which last year saw waves of violence across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Jordanian king met Foreign Minister Yair Lapid earlier this month to discuss strategies for containing unrest during Ramadan.
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