Both Hamas and Turkey’s ruling party have roots in the Muslim Brotherhood. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted a large Hamas delegation on Saturday on the eve of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Israel.

King Abdullah of Jordan stressed that the Palestinian cause remains the core issue in the region, adding that Jordan continues to call for a two-state solution that ends the Israeli occupation and leads to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 4 June 1967 lines.

King Abdullah, Egypt President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, and Iraq Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi arrived in Jordan on Tuesday to attend the third trilateral summit between Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, in Amman.