The Trump administration said it will deny visas to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other Palestinian officials in a move that will likely make it impossible for them to attend next month’s meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization “must consistently repudiate terrorism — including the October 7 massacre.” He also said Palestinian leaders must stop efforts “to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state.”