The UK-based Al-Quds newspaper and other Arab media outlets reported on Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be joining the meeting in Riyadh with U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday.

Trump is visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE this week in his first overseas trip to the Middle East, but not Israel.

According to sources quoted in the report, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will also be joining the meeting.

The summit was the initiative of Bin Salman and was accepted by Trump.

The report also claimed that the Crown Prince “expects Trump to accept the Saudi condition for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

However, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee last week adamantly denied reports that Trump plans to announce the US recognition of a Palestinian state.

Israel has set Trump’s trip to the Middle East as the deadline for launching an expanded military operation in Gaza.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)