The United States has revoked visas for Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) officials ahead of the high-level meetings at UN headquarters in New York next month, Al Jazeera reports.

The State Department criticised the PA for carrying out what it dubbed “lawfare campaigns”, including appeals to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, and calls for countries to recognise a Palestinian state.

Those steps “materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks”, the department said in a statement, which did not specify which officials had their visas revoked.