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Abbas refuses to answer Jared Kushner's phone call

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Haaretz reported on Thursday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused Wednesday to answer a phone call from Jared Kushner, Trump adviser and son-in-law, who is responsible for mediating an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Instead of answering Kushner’s call, Abbas forwarded it to the representative of the Palestinian Authority in Washington, according to the Lebanese TV Channel Al-Mayadeen. This occurred amid the state of tension which resurfaced following Washington’s decision not to renew the license of the PLO office in the US capital, prompting President Abbas to announce the freezing of Palestinian contacts with the United States.
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