‘Raised voices and disagreements’ during Blinken-Abbas meeting, local media reports • FRANCE 24

‘Raised voices and disagreements’ during Blinken-Abbas meeting, local media reports • FRANCE 24

Last night we were talking about tense talks between Anthony lincol and Israel’s prime minister and today we’re reporting the same on the other side of the line in rala so local language that’s Arabic language channels are reporting that there were raised voices and disagreements although the fundamentals that the US is committed to

The Palestinian Authority taking part in running the Gaza Strip after this conflict that was there but then it’s what happens next and how the Palestinian Authority would have to be reformed in order to be able to do that effectively and one of the first things would that would have to be reformed of

Course is the president himself he’s now very old I think he’s almost 90 he’s very unpopular he’s in the 19th year of his 4year term there have been no elections there’s lots of cronyism there’s quite a deal of corruption and all of that I think sits uh ill with the

With the Americans who want him to March into Gaza and run there too you know Saudi sources were reporting that the Saudis actually said directly to abas that he had to leave I don’t know if anony Lincoln did that but we did hear reports that uh that what Mahmud abas

Did was bet it right back and say you’ve got to stop Israel and you for example one of um their complaints is that Israel has frozen funds that it’s holding on behalf of the Palestinians and doesn’t isn’t passing them on to to abas he said if you can’t force Israel

To do that he said to blinkin how will you force them to come to any kind of peace deal so uh it was heated and um he did say in the end though that he is still committed to a two-state solution uh with uh the West Bank and Gaza East

Jerusalem as the capital and called for that discussion and in Bahrain as we just heard Anthony linkoln said that yes abas had agreed to um to reform so let’s see if that works out

Talks between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Wednesday were tense, according to Arabic media reports. Blinken said the Palestinian Authority was committed to playing a role in administering Gaza and implementing internal reforms. Abbas for his part pushed back, saying the US has to stop Israeli aggression in Gaza, explains FRANCE 24’s Irris Makler reporting from Jerusalem.

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