CIA director Gina Haspel secretly traveled to Ramallah on Thursday, the day after US President Donald Trump's peace plan was announced, Israel's Kan public broadcaster reported on Sunday.
Haspel met with Palestinian Authority officials, who told her of their intention to sever all ties, including security, with Israel and the United States.
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Kan reported that the CIA chief, who came to assess the PA's attitude after the announcement of the US peace plan, did not meet with PA President Mahmoud Abbas during her visit.
However, Haspel did meet with PA intelligence chief Majed Farage, who reportedly told her that despite Ramallah's opposition to the American proposal the exchange of information with the CIA will continue.
Abbas, meanwhile, said on Saturday that the PA had cut all ties with the United States and Israel, including those relating to security, after rejecting the peace plan presented by Trump.
Abbas was in Cairo to address the Arab League, which backed the Palestinians in their opposition to Trump's plan.
The blueprint, endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calls for the creation of a demilitarized Palestinian state that excludes Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria and is under near-total Israeli security control.
"We've informed the Israeli side ... that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States including security ties," Abbas told the one-day emergency meeting, called to discuss Trump's plan.
Israeli and US officials had no immediate comment on his remarks.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority's security forces have long cooperated in policing areas of Judea and Samaria that are under Palestinian control. The PA also has intelligence cooperation agreements with the CIA, which continued even after the Palestinians began boycotting the Trump administration's peace efforts in 2017.
Abbas also said he had refused to discuss the plan by with Trump by phone, or to receive even a copy of it to study it.
"Trump asked that I speak to him by phone but I said 'no,' and that he wants to send me a letter ... but I refused it," he said.
Abbas said he did not want Trump to be able to say that he, Abbas, had been consulted.
He reiterated his "complete" rejection of the Trump plan, presented on Tuesday. "I will not have it recorded in my history that I sold Jerusalem," he said.
The Western-backed Palestinian leadership has been under mounting pressure from ordinary Palestinians and its rivals in the Islamic terrorist group Hamas to cut off security ties with Israel and the US or even dismantle the increasingly unpopular Palestinian Authority.
That would leave Israel responsible for the complicated and expensive task of providing basic services to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.
The Palestinians have made such threats in the past, with few people taking them seriously. But this time might be different, especially if Israel proceeds with annexation of its settlements in Judea and Samaria, as well as the Jordan Valley.
The blueprint also proposes US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's indivisible capital.
The Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo said the plan did not meet the minimum aspirations of Palestinians, and that the League would not cooperate with the United States in implementing it.
The ministers affirmed Palestinian rights to create a future state based on the land captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, with east Jerusalem as capital, the final communique said.
Foreign ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, three close US allies, as well as Iraq, Lebanon and others said there could be no peace without recognizing Palestinian rights to establish a state within the pre-1967 territories.
After Trump unveiled his plan, some Arab powers had appeared, despite historic support for the Palestinians, to prioritize close ties with the United States and a shared hostility towards Iran over traditional Arab alliances.
Three Gulf Arab states – Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates – attended the White House gathering where Trump announced his plan alongside Netanyahu.
