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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceled the visas of which Palestinian authorities and the Palestinian liberation organization due to the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly next month, where these groups were represented in the past.
The State Department stated in a statement on Friday that Rubio also ordered to reject some new applications for a visa from Palestinian officials.
This step is the last in the series of measures taken by the Trump government to aim at the Palestinians with restrictions on the visa, and on the same day the Israeli army announced the combat zone of the city of gas.
The State Department also suspended a program that allowed the injured Palestinian children from Gaza to come to the United States for medical care after social networks by some conservatives.
The State Department did not indicate how many visas was recalled or how many applications were rejected. The ministry did not immediately respond to a request for more detailed information.
It was not immediately clear whether under the influence of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The organization’s announcement says that representatives appointed to the Palestinian authorities in the United Nations will receive release in accordance with the United States agreement with the UN host country so that they can continue their activities in New York.
“In the interests of our national security, to make the OAG and Palestinian authorities responsible for the inability to observe their obligations and undermine the prospects of the world,” the statement said.
“Before OOP and PA are considered partners in the world, they must consistently abandon terrorism, including the massacre on October 7, and put an end to the motivation of terrorism in education, as required by American legislation and, as promised.”
The Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Er -ryad Mansur, told reporters on Friday that he had just learned about Rubio’s decision and evaluating his influence.
“We will see what this means and how it relates to any of our delegations, and we will answer accordingly,” he said.
Mansur said that Abbas heads the delegation at the UN meetings next month and is expected to perform at the General Assembly, like many years.
It is expected that he will also take part in a high -level meeting under the chairman of France and Saudi Arabia on September 22 by decision of the two states, which requires Israel to live next to an independent Palestine.
In the United Nations, 147 of 193 member states of the organization recognize Palestine as a country, and the general meeting has the status of an observer who has not been a member since 2012.
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