April 18, 2023
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Abbas arrives in Saudi Arabia

Abbas will talk at length with King Salman and Crown Prince “about the Zionist crime in Al-Aqsa Mosque…reports Asian Lite News

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Jeddah yesterday. At King Abdulaziz International Airport, he was received by Prince Bader bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, the Deputy Governor of Makkah region, Palestinian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Basem Abdullah Al-Agha, and a number of officials.

President Abbas is accompanied on this visit by the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, and the head of the Palestinian Intelligence Service, Majed Faraj.

Abbas is set to hold meetings with its leaders about the Palestinian issue and Arab relations, and what the Palestinian people are suffering from, and Jerusalem is among the priorities of the dialogue, the Siasat Daily reported.

Abbas will talk at length with King Salman and Crown Prince “about the Zionist crime in Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the suffering of the Palestinian people in terms of killing, displacement, and blowing up and demolishing homes.”

On Friday night, April 14, Saudi Arabia hosted a “consultative meeting” in which the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the Sultanate of Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, and the diplomatic advisor to the UAE President Anwar Gargash participated, condemning “Israel’s illegal practices that undermine the two-state solution and attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque”, it was reported.

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