Overview

• State Department officials confirmed that Mahmud Abbas and roughly 80 Palestinian Authority representatives had existing U.S. visas revoked and will not be issued new ones, with the PLO included in the action.
• Abbas is now unlikely to attend the UN General Assembly in New York in late September, although the PA’s UN observer mission remains exempt from the restrictions.
• Washington says the measures serve national‑security and policy goals by holding the PA and PLO accountable for undermining peace, failing to reject terrorism, pursuing ICC and ICJ cases, and pushing unilateral recognition efforts.
• The Palestinian leadership denounced the move as a breach of the UN host country agreement and international law and asked Washington to reverse the decision.
• The EU and the UN urged the U.S. to reconsider, while Israel’s foreign minister praised the step, as several countries prepare recognition initiatives for a Palestinian state at the General Assembly.