Feb 2, 2021
“A new phase has begun and we have officially renewed relations with the US administration,” PA Minister of Civilian Affairs Hussein Al-Sheikh told TPS.
By Baruch Yedid, TPS
The first telephone conversation between senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and an official in the US administration in three years took place on Monday night, signaling the renewal of ties between the PA and the US.
“A new phase has begun and we have officially renewed relations with the US administration,” PA Minister of Civilian Affairs Hussein Al-Sheikh told TPS Tuesday.
Two weeks have passed since President Joe Biden entered the White House, but the American leader has not yet called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet voted Sunday to extend the country’s national coronavirus lockdown until at least Friday morning as Israel continues to face high infection rates.
The Israeli cabinet approved extending the ban on entry to and exit from Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport until Feb. 7 at midnight.
With its health system strained to the limit, the country is in “a very tight race” against the highly contagious variants of the virus, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As of Monday morning, 3,081,639 Israelis had received the first dose of Pfizer’s BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and 1,790,486 had received the second dose. Meanwhile, however, the daily number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continued to rise, with nearly 10 percent of the more than 54,000 tests conducted on Sunday returning positive for the virus.
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