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Friday, August 29, 2025
US says it will ban PA’s Abbas from attending UN General Assembly next month
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
The US visa ban on Palestinian officials who were planning to attend the United Nations General Assembly next month will cover Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas along with 80 other PA officials, a State Department official tells The Times of Israel.
The State Department announced that it would be implementing a visa ban on Palestinian officials earlier Friday but did not specify who specifically would be targeted.
The State Department has said it is following through with a July 31 decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials over purported violations of US law that tracks Ramallah’s adherence to the Oslo Accords and commitments to fighting terror. It has cited Ramallah’s “attempts to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state.”
The Times of Israel Community.