ISTANBUL, May 18, 2018 (WAFA) – Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah Thursday headed to Turkey’s capital, Istanbul, to attend the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) urgent summit on Gaza and Jerusalem.

Hamdallah headed a delegation of the Foreign and Expatriates Minister Riyad al-Malki, Jerusalem Affairs Minister Adnan Husseini, Waqf and Religious Affairs Minister Yousef Ideis, Labor Minister Mamoun Abu Shahla besides to a host of high-ranking executives, according to a press statement by the Palestinian government.

Hamdallah attends the OIC summit on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, who underwent an ear surgery in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

He is expected to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan besides to heads of other Islamic and Arabic countries in attendance and brief them about the latest developments in the Palestinian arena.

The summit, called by Erdogan, whose country currently assumes the rotating presidency of the OIC, is expected to address the latest killing of over 60 Palestinians, the youngest being eight months old, during mass rallies along Gaza’s eastern border besides to the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.

K. F.