New York – The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has gone into hospital in the United States for a routine check, a senior Palestinian official told Reuters on Thursday.
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“He is in the hospital now doing ordinary checks,” the official said by telephone, without giving further details.
Abbas, 82, addressed the U.N. Security Council in New York on Feb. 20 and called for an international conference to be held by mid-2018 to kick-start the stalled peace process with Israel.
He was expected to leave the U.S. for Venezuela for an official visit, according to his office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. That visit was scheduled to start on Feb. 21.
In October 2016, Abbas was taken to hospital in the West Bank without prior public announcement for heart function tests which, a doctor said, showed normal results.
Abbas became Palestinian president after the death in 2004 of Yasser Arafat. He pursued peace talks with Israel but the negotiations broke down in 2014.
There has been no new coverage of Abbas on the official Palestinian news agency Wafa since Feb. 20, when he met with delegations after his U.N. speech.
It is unusual for there to be a two-day gap in communication on Wafa about the president’s affairs when he has official engagements scheduled.
Let us hope and pray that this is not routine and that he’s seriously suffering from something bad!
This vile terrorist maligns our president and shuns our Vice President and then has the nerve to make use of a US hospital? Who’s paying for his care? No doubt us taxpayers! Just like we fund his terror payments to murderers of Israelis and Americans!
And who is going to pay that bill?
So America and Israel are you sworn enemies yet they come here and there for wellness checks?
Hopefully it’s the last time he gets sick
All of a sudden America is Kosher !!!
Why didn’t he go to Gaza hospital, or Egypt, or Qatar, etc, etc. Why American hospitals, I guess he feels safer in an American hospital than the others, we don’t accidental kill on purpose????
The reason he is in a US hospital is because he has Medicare .
Pull the damn plug.