JAKARTA - The Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil Fahmy said on Wednesday that Israel had prevented him from visiting Ramallah in the West Bank, which was to be his first foreign trip since taking office this month.
Egyptian veteran diplomat Nabil Fahmy was elected secretary-general of the 22-nation organization on June 22.
"The Palestinian Authority informed the regional bloc secretariat "about the Israeli occupation authorities' rejection of visits to the occupied Palestinian territories" to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah," the League's secretary-general's office said in a statement, Al Arabiya reported from AFP (9/7).
Secretary-General Fahmy said Palestinians in the area "suffer from sieges in their cities, surrounded by expanding settlements and settler-only roads, and are subjected to the brutality and terrorism of settlers who enjoy the protection and support of the occupying state."
It is known that President Abbas' government rules part of the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
Since the Gaza war began in 2023, the West Bank has been rocked by Israeli military raids, deadly settler attacks, and settlement expansion, which are illegal under international law.
Quoted from Al Jazeera, Palestinian Ministry of Health data states that 1,087 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023.
Israeli official figures show that at least 46 Israelis, both soldiers and civilians, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war.
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