Media: Trump spoke with a Palestinian leader for the first time since 2017.

Newly elected US President Donald Trump held his first telephone conversation with the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, since 2017, Axios reports.

Contacts between politicians were interrupted after Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the American embassy there.

According to Palestinian officials, the conversation moved in a positive direction. Trump expressed his desire to help end the war in the Gaza Strip.

Abbas congratulated Trump on his victory in the elections and confirmed his readiness to work with the American side to achieve peace in the region, the publication reported.

In turn, Bloomberg, citing a former official in the Trump administration, notes that the president-elect, even before officially taking office, had already begun to shape US foreign policy in two main areas – Israel and Ukraine.