Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the U.S. visas of a number of Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization officials ahead of next month’s high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly. The State Department said in a statement Friday that Rubio also had ordered some new visa applications from Palestinian officials be denied. The statement didn’t specify how many visas had been revoked or how many applications had been denied. It wasn’t immediately clear if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would be affected. The Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. said the Palestinian Authority would respond. The Trump administration has taken a number of steps to target Palestinians with visa restrictions.