Abbas announced the freezing of official contacts with Israel The head of the Palestinian state Mahmoud Abbas announced the suspension of contacts with Israel at all levels due to the installation of metal detectors Israelis on the Temple mount in Jerusalem. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced a freeze on contacts with Israel at all levels, reports The Jerusalem Post. He made an appeal to the people, which was broadcast on television, after meeting the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. With a statement of the security measures taken by the Israeli side in the area of the Temple mount and al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Abbas said that the installation of Israeli detectors in the passages to the Temple mount carried out on “trumped-up pretext”. “I declare the freezing of contacts with the Israeli side on all levels as long as the Israeli government will not cancel the measures against al-Aqsa mosque”, —
