PA President Abbas heads to Germany for ‘routine’ medical treatment
Ageing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was set to head to Germany for medical treatment on Monday afternoon, in what officials reportedly described as a “routine” checkpoint.
In accordance to Kan news, officers near to Abbas described the vacation as “routine.”
In movies circulating on Palestinian media, two helicopters could be witnessed landing at Abbas’s office environment in Ramallah to ferry him to Amman. From there, Abbas will reportedly be taken to Germany.
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A spokesperson for Abbas’s office environment could not be arrived at for comment on the president’s condition. But Abbas, a longtime smoker, has a long history of health difficulties, ranging from coronary heart trouble to a struggle with prostate most cancers additional than a ten years ago.
The current excursion to Germany will not be Abbas’s initially. The Palestinian Authority president headed to Berlin in 2019 for medical treatment.
In this Oct 20, 2012, photograph, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demonstrates his ink-stained finger soon after casting his vote all through neighborhood elections at a polling station in the West Financial institution metropolis of Ramallah. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
The Palestinian leader, 85, has faced recurring health woes in latest years, primary to fears of a electric power struggle should really he be unable to go on as PA president.
Rumors relating to Abbas’s health have been rampant. Palestinian officials have worked to tamp down unconfirmed reports and maintain the president’s health challenges out of the public eye.
In February 2018, Abbas underwent medical checks, like a biopsy, at Johns Hopkins College Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland, according to Jibril Rajoub, the secretary-basic of the Fatah Central Committee, who gave the report to Palestine Tv set, the official PA channel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the media at the EU Council in Brussels on January 22, 2018. (AP Photograph/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
“He had a minor health problem. So he did a examine. The health professionals took a biopsy from him and we now know he has nothing at all completely wrong,” Rajoub said at the time.
Abbas has not appointed a PA vice president or moved to make this sort of a part. Considering that 2005, when Abbas was elected to a 4-year expression, the Palestinians also have not held PA presidential elections.
An incapacitated Abbas could also complicate planned Palestinian parliamentary elections in the West Lender. The Palestinians are set to head to their initially countrywide vote in 15 a long time on Might 22, when Abbas has decreed Palestinian legislative elections.
