Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the funeral of former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie who was part of the team negotiating peace with Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the funeral of former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie who was part of the team negotiating peace with Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the funeral of former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie who was part of the team negotiating peace with Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein Al-Sheikh, and Senior Fatah official Mahmoud Al-Aloul attend the funeral of former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie who was part of the team negotiating peace with Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 

Volunteers move the body of Ghulam Abbas, who was killed in yesterday's attack on a police station, to an ambulance outside a morgue in Karachi, Pakistan February 18, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas leave following their meeting in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas reads a statement during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not seen) in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not seen) in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (not seen) in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as they meet in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS 

Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein Al-Sheikh welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he visits Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 

Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein Al-Sheikh welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he visits Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 

Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein Al-Sheikh welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he visits Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 

Soccer Football - Arabian Gulf Cup25 - Semi Final - Iraq v Qatar - Basra International Stadium, Basra, Iraq - January 16, 2023 Iraq's Mustafa Nadhim, Alaa Abbas and teammates celebrate after the match REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Soccer Football - Arabian Gulf Cup25 - Semi Final - Iraq v Qatar - Basra International Stadium, Basra, Iraq - January 16, 2023 Iraq's Mustafa Nadhim and Alaa Abbas celebrate with teammates after the match REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

IHF Handball World Championship - Preliminary Round - France v Saudi Arabia - Spodek, Katowice, Poland - January 14, 2023 Saudi Arabia's Abdullah Al-Abbas in action REUTERS/Andrzej Grygiel 

IHF Handball World Championship - Preliminary Round - France v Saudi Arabia - Spodek, Katowice, Poland - January 14, 2023 Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Al-Abbas in action with France's Ludovic Fabregas REUTERS/Andrzej Grygiel 

IHF Handball World Championship - Preliminary Round - France v Saudi Arabia - Spodek, Katowice, Poland - January 14, 2023 Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Al-Abbas shoots at goal REUTERS/Andrzej Grygiel 

IHF Handball World Championship - Preliminary Round - France v Saudi Arabia - Spodek, Katowice, Poland - January 14, 2023 Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Al-Abbas shoots at goal REUTERS/Andrzej Grygiel 

Soccer Football - Arabian Gulf Cup25 - Group B - United Arab Emirates v Kuwait - Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium, Basra, Iraq - January 10, 2023 United Arab Emirates' Walid Abbas REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Medhat Abbas, director of Gaza's health ministry, speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Gaza City, January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa 

Medhat Abbas, director of Gaza's health ministry, talks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Gaza City, January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa 

Lawmaker Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List attends a special session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to approve and swear in a new right-wing government, in Jerusalem December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool 

Lawmaker Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List attends a special session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to approve and swear in a new right-wing government, in Jerusalem December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on December 25, 2022. Ahmad Gharabli/Pool via REUTERS 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 25, 2022. Ahmad Gharabli/Pool via REUTERS 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas congratulates Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C), apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, during the Christmas Midnight Mass in Saint Catherine's Church at the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, in the adjacent Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 25, 2022. Ahmad Gharabli/Pool via REUTERS 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 25, 2022. Ahmad Gharabli/Pool via REUTERS 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 25, 2022. Ahmad Gharabli/Pool via REUTERS 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas congratulates Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, during the Christmas Midnight Mass in Saint Catherine's Church at the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, in the adjacent Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 25, 2022. Ahmad Gharabli/Pool via REUTERS 

Latvian President Egils Levits meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a welcome ceremony in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/Pool 

Latvian President Egils Levits meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a welcome ceremony in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/Pool 

Latvian President Egils Levits meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a welcome ceremony in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/Pool 

Latvian President Egils Levits shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before their meeting in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/Pool 

Latvian President Egils Levits shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before their meeting in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/Pool 

Abba Tijani, Director General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments speaks during a news conference announcing the return of the first six objects from World Gallery's Kingdom of Benin display to Nigeria at The Horniman Museum and Gardens, in London, Britain November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska 

Abba Tijani, Director General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments speaks during a news conference announcing the return of the first six objects from World Gallery's Kingdom of Benin display to Nigeria at The Horniman Museum and Gardens, in London, Britain November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska 

The Chief Executive of The Horniman Museum and Gardens Nick Merriman and Abba Tijani, Director General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments pose for a photo as they announce the return of the first six objects from World Gallery's Kingdom of Benin display to Nigeria at The Horniman Museum and Gardens, in London, Britain November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska 

The Chief Executive of The Horniman Museum and Gardens Nick Merriman listens as Abba Tijani, Director General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments speaks during a news conference announcing the return of the first six objects from World Gallery's Kingdom of Benin display to Nigeria at The Horniman Museum and Gardens, in London, Britain November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska 

Head of General Security, Abbas Ibrahim, attends a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir 

Head of General Security, Abbas Ibrahim, stands before delivering a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir 

Hussein Ali, 31, (L) and Abdul Amir Ali, 23, (R) fill a water tank from a truck, outside their family home in the village of Al-Bu Hussain which sits on the bank of a former canal which has dried up, in Diwaniya, Iraq, October 20, 2022. Hussein and Abdul's uncle, Abbas Elwan, committed suicide in August after attempts to find water for his parched farmlands failed. Abbas received a monthly?unemployment allowance, but with dwindling crops and rising food prices he went into debt. In desperation, he tried digging wells to grow vegetables. Each well cost the equivalent of his monthly allowance. Each time water would emerge for a few days, and then dry up. "That was his last hope, and there was no water," Abbas's brother Ali told Reuters. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani SEARCH "CLIMATE MIDEAST WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Abdul Amir Ali, 23, shows a photograph of his late uncle Abbas Elwan, on his phone in the village of Al-Bu Hussain which sits on the bank of a former canal which has dried up, in Diwaniya, Iraq October 20, 2022. Abbas committed suicide in August after attempts to find water for his parched farmlands failed. Abbas received a monthly unemployment allowance, but with dwindling crops and rising food prices he went into debt. In desperation, he tried digging wells to grow vegetables. Each well cost the equivalent of his monthly allowance. Each time water would emerge for a few days, and then dry up. "That was his last hope, and there was no water," Abbas's brother Ali told Reuters. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani SEARCH "CLIMATE MIDEAST WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Abdul Amir Ali, 23, (C) and Hussein Ali, 31, (R) repair electrical items in their workshop in the village of Al-Bu Hussain which sits on the bank of a former canal which has dried up, in Diwaniya, Iraq, October 20, 2022. Abdul and Hussein's uncle, Abbas Elwan, committed suicide in August after attempts to find water for his parched farmlands failed. Abbas received a monthly unemployment allowance, but with dwindling crops and rising food prices he went into debt. In desperation, he tried digging wells to grow vegetables. Each well cost the equivalent of his monthly allowance. Each time water would emerge for a few days, and then dry up. "That was his last hope, and there was no water," Abbas's brother Ali told Reuters. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani SEARCH "CLIMATE MIDEAST WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Abdul Abbas Ali, 24, works in his barber shop next to his family home, in the village of Al-Bu Hussain which sits on the bank of a former canal which has dried up, in Diwaniya, Iraq, October 20, 2022. Abdul's uncle, Abbas Elwan, committed suicide in August after attempts to find water for his parched farmlands failed. Abbas received a monthly?unemployment allowance, but with dwindling crops and rising food prices he went into debt. In desperation, he tried digging wells to grow vegetables. Each well cost the equivalent of his monthly allowance. Each time water would emerge for a few days, and then dry up. "That was his last hope, and there was no water," Abbas's brother Ali told Reuters. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani SEARCH "CLIMATE MIDEAST WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A donkey stands in the scorching heat outside the family home of of Abbas Elwan, in the village of Al-Bu Hussain which sits on the bank of a former canal which has dried up, in Diwaniya, Iraq, October 14, 2022. Abbas committed suicide in August after attempts to find water for his parched farmlands failed. Abbas received a monthly?unemployment allowance, but with dwindling crops and rising food prices he went into debt. In desperation, he tried digging wells to grow vegetables. Each well cost the equivalent of his monthly allowance. Each time water would emerge for a few days, and then dry up. "That was his last hope, and there was no water," Abbas's brother Ali told Reuters. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani SEARCH "CLIMATE MIDEAST WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ali Elwan, 56, and his son Abdul Amir Ali, 23, walk in the courtyard of Abbas Elwan's home, in the village of Al-Bu Hussain which sits on the bank of a former canal which has dried up, in Diwaniya, Iraq, October 14, 2022. Ali's brother, Abbas Elwan, committed suicide in August after attempts to find water for his parched farmlands failed. Abbas received a monthly unemployment allowance, but with dwindling crops and rising food prices he went into debt. In desperation, he tried digging wells to grow vegetables. Each well cost the equivalent of his monthly allowance. Each time water would emerge for a few days, and then dry up. "That was his last hope, and there was no water," Ali told Reuters. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani SEARCH "CLIMATE MIDEAST WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Brothers, Khudair Abbas Elwan, 15, Haider Abbas Elwan, 7, and Hamza Abbas Elwan, 12, (L to R) eat a meal together in their family home in the village of Al-Bu Hussain which sits on the bank of a former canal which has dried up, in Diwaniya, Iraq, October 14, 2022. The brothers' father, Abbas Elwan, committed suicide in August after attempts to find water for his parched farmlands failed. Abbas received a monthly?unemployment allowance, but with dwindling crops and rising food prices he went into debt. In desperation, he tried digging wells to grow vegetables. Each well cost the equivalent of his monthly allowance. Each time water would emerge for a few days, and then dry up. "That was his last hope, and there was no water," Abbas's brother Ali told Reuters. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani SEARCH "CLIMATE MIDEAST WATER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.