Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

Report: PA leader flown to Jordan en route to Germany for medical treatment

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, 85, has a long history of health issues.

Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses members of his Cabinet in Ramallah, Sept. 3, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, 85, was slated to fly to Germany for medical treatment on Monday, Palestinian media reported.

Abbas has already traveled by helicopter to Amman, Jordan, from where he will depart for Europe, according to the report.

Abbas has a long history of health issues, ranging from heart trouble to a battle with prostate cancer more than a decade ago.

This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.

“Our job is to tell the true story and remember who were the victims and how just are the war Israel conducted and the war America and Israel are conducting in Iran against the source of the evil.”
The Israeli president released his New Year’s greeting to Jewish communities around the world in eight languages.
“It’s an hour of crisis,” Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told JNS. “I think it’s a time when you have to try every avenue.”
“For the record, this is false,” the former U.S. secretary of state wrote in response to a social media post about the article.