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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Stock Photography.
Contact has been broken for six months, but now the Palestinian Authority announces that cooperation with Israel will resume.
“We will resume contacts with the Israelis on economic, health and political issues,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Ishtayeh said in a video conference.
The UN and the EU are mentioned among those who have tried to resume cooperation between Palestine and Israel, and the announcement means, for example, that the organization of transporting Palestinian patients to Israeli hospitals may be resumed.
It was in May that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas halted joint work, which also included US-backed security cooperation, in response to Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
These annexation plans were put on hold in August, when Israel signed a US-brokered agreement on normalized relations with the United Arab Emirates, an agreement that Palestine has condemned.
“In light of Mahmoud Abbas’ international contacts … and given the written and verbal commitments we have received from the Israelis, we will resume relations where they were before May 19, 2020,” said Hussein al-Sheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs. Palestinian Authority.
The news comes before Israel is visited by outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday. Under the Republican government of President Donald Trump, relations between the United States and Palestine have collapsed and Abbas has openly stated that he hopes the relationship will improve when Democrat Joe Biden takes office as the new president of the United States.
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