Palestinian factions hold talks

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas holds a placard showing maps of historical Palestine, the 1947 United Nations partition plan on Palestine, the 1948-1967 borders between the Palestinian territories and Israel, and a map of US President Donald Trumpu2019s proposal for a Palestinian state under his new peace plan, while speaking in Ramallah on Thursday. Abbas via video, spoke with representatives of Palestinian factions gathered at the Palestinian embassy in Beirut in rare talks on how to respond to such accords and to a Middle East peace plan announced by Washington this year. (AFP)