Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told Knesset members during a meeting in his office in Ramallah on Sunday that despite the deep crisis with the Trump administration, a delegation of PA security and intelligence officials is in Washington, DC for talks with the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Channel 10 Television.
Heading the delegation is General Majed Faraj, who is also in Washington for medical treatments. According to two people who attended the meeting, Abbas said he wants to maintain security coordination and intelligence sharing with the US, even though he has cut all ties with the White House since President Trump's decision last year to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Amid cuts to the PA, the Trump administration has decided to maintain the funding it gives to PA security services.