Jordan’s king lands in West Bank on rare trip to meet Abbas: official
- Date: 28-Mar-2022
- Source: Al-Monitor
- Sector:Financial Services
- Country:Jordan
Jordan’s king lands in West Bank on rare trip to meet Abbas: official
Jordan's King Abdullah II landed in Ramallah on Monday to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, in his first trip to the Israeli-occupied West Bank since 2017, Abbas's office said.
Abdullah's visit comes as foreign ministers from four Arab states joined an unprecedented meeting hosted in Israel, a gathering Israel hailed as "historic", following a series of normalisation 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 Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.