Arab League chief says Israeli officials barred his planned visit to occupied Palestinian territories

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy said Wednesday that Israeli authorities had prevented his planned visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, Anadolu reports. “The Palestinian authorities have informed the General Secretariat of the Israeli refusal to permit a visit that Mr. Nabil Fahmy intended to make to the occupied Palestinian territories on Wednesday,” his spokesperson said on the US social media company X. He said the visit was aimed at supporting the resilience of the Palestinian people and meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Fahmy “chose the visit to the occupied territories to be his first foreign destination due to the centrality of the Palestinian cause and to emphasize that it will remain at […]