Jordan’s king makes rare West Bank trip to meet Abbas

Jordan’s king makes rare West Bank trip to meet Abbas

Jordan's King Abdullah II met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah on Monday, in his first trip to the Israeli-occupied West Bank since 2017, Abbas's office said.

Abdullah's visit came as foreign ministers from four Arab countries and the US wrapped up a meeting which host Israel hailed as "historic", following a series of normalisation agreements last year which angered the Palestinians.

Abdullah's visit, which lasted about two hours, was held 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.