WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to U.S. officials.

The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Last week, the State Department also said it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York this month.

The more sweeping measures, laid out Aug. 18 by State Department headquarters to all U.S. embassies and consulates, would also prevent many Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Palestinian diaspora from entering the United States on various types of nonimmigrant visas, according to four U.S. of

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