RAMALLAH, West Bank (Dispatches) – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 82, is undergoing minor ear surgery in a West Bank hospital and is expected to be discharged within a few hours, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said on Tuesday.
Abbas’ surgery coincides with an escalation in Zionist-Palestinian tensions after Zionist troops shot dead dozens of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border on Monday as the new U.S. Embassy opened in al-Quds.
In February, Abbas was hospitalized in the United States for medical checks during a trip to address the UN Security Council in New York.
In October 2016, he was taken to hospital in the West Bank without prior public announcement for heart function tests which, a doctor said, showed normal results.