Residents of the Jenin refugee camp have “absolutely zero faith in any kind of real diplomatic effort” ahead of the meeting between US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, according to Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford.
“As you can imagine, there is a lot of anti-American sentiment here because they blame America for supporting Israel so heavily so far since this war has started … and in situations like this here in Jenin where we have had the longest Israeli military raid in years and this kind of raid happen all the time,” he said, reporting from Jenin.
Also, Abbas is “made to seem to be completely redundant here, unable to control the kind of attacks [by the Israeli army] that we see on nightly, daily bases here and right across the occupied West Bank”.
