Secretary of State Marco Rubio has decided to fold the office that manages Washington's relations with Palestinians into the US embassy in Jerusalem, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Tuesday.
The US Office of Palestinian Affairs will now report to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and will be merged with the other sections of the main embassy to Israel in the coming weeks, Bruce told reporters.
Speaking with Channel 12, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said, "The office was created by the previous administration to operate independently from the US Embassy, and it became an unmanageable administrative issue."