(26 Apr 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Amman, Jordan – 4 November 2023
1. Wide of meeting between Hussein al-Sheikh, top Palestine Liberation Organization official, then-U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farha, and then-Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry
2. Close of al-Sheikh
3. Tracking shot of Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Ayman al-Safadi, walking with al-Sheikh
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Ramallah, West Bank – 10 January 2024
4. Blinken arriving at the Presidency in Ramallah, being welcomed by al-Sheikh
5. Palestinian flag
6. Various exteriors of Palestinian presidency headquarters
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Ramallah, West Bank – 14 June 2022
7. Mid of al-Sheikh sitting
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein al-Sheikh, Senior Palestinian official:
"Any future Palestinian president of the Palestinian people can only be a president elected by the Palestinian people through the ballot box. The Palestinian president must be elected. The Palestinian president will not be appointed, he will not come to power by force, or come because of some regional or international interest, or arrive on an Israeli tank."
9. Al-Sheikh seated
STORYLINE:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president.
It’s a major step by the aging leader to designate a successor.
The appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization does not guarantee he will be the next Palestinian president.
But it makes him the front-runner among longtime politicians in the dominant Fatah party who hope to succeed the 89-year-old Abbas.
Abbas hopes to play a major role in postwar Gaza.
He has been under pressure from Western and Arab allies to rehabilitate the Palestinian Authority, which has limited autonomy in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The PLO is the internationally recognized representative of the Palestinian people and oversees the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.
Abbas has led both entities for two decades.
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