RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Aug 5, 2017 (AFP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II is to meet Monday with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on his first visit in five years to the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, a Palestinian official said.
Mohammed Shtayyeh, a top official in the Fatah party of Abbas, told AFP on Saturday the two leaders would discuss efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which has been at a standstill since 2014.
It will be the first visit since December 2012 by Abdullah — whose country is custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem and which has a 2004 peace treaty with Israel — to the Palestinian political capital in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Jordan intervened last month to help resolve a crisis over access to the ultra-sensitive Al Haram Al Sharif in the Old City of Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, known to Jews as Temple Mount.