WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM: White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Wednesday the United States is willing to engage with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but hinted a new peace plan might call on Palestinian refugees to settle where they are and not return to lands now in Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with White House senior advisor Jared Kushner in the West Bank City of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 21, 2017. In a conference call with reporters, Kushner said U.S. President Donald Trump is “very fond” of Abbas and willing to engage with him at the right time. But Kushner’s comments on Palestinian refugees are likely to raise concerns among Palestinians. “The number of actual Palestinian refugees is classified,” she told a conference hosted by the conservative Israel Hayom newspaper.

Source: Pakistan Today July 03, 2019 15:22 UTC