RABAT, December 15. /TASS/. The State of Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met in Ramallah on Friday to discuss the situation in the Middle East.

At the meeting, Abbas underscored "the urgent need to stop the ongoing Israeli aggression, particularly the genocide that’s being carried out against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip these days," the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

The president demanded "to save the civilian population from the sorrow and destruction that are being caused by the Israeli war machine."