میدل ایست آیUS ambassador, Palestinian Authority VP meet in Ramallah: Report
US ambassador, Palestinian Authority VP meet in Ramallah: Report
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met with Palestinian Authority (PA) Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh in Ramallah on Wednesday, the Times of Israel has reported.
They had only met once before.
On the agenda was the steep increase in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians - some of them US citizens - in the occupied West Bank, as well as Israel's withholding of billions of dollars of Palestinian tax revenue, because the PA supported European and Canadian decisions to recognise a Palestinian state.
Sheikh also hoped Huckabee would push Israel to allow permits for Palestinian Christians to go to Jerusalem for the Christmas period, the Times of Israel said, citing a PA source.
