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.
The Palestinian president was in Cairo to address the Arab league, a group that has backed the Palestinians’ rejection of President Trump’s peace plan. Abbas has described the plan as “nonsense.” Continue reading.