In exchange for security guarantees for the Israeli population, the Palestinian Authority has been promised by Israel that it will not talk about establishing new settlements for the next four months and will suspend the construction of new houses for the next six months.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority they have agreed this Sunday a plan to study the reactivation are agreements cooperation while refraining from taking, during the next three to six months, unilateral measures that could exacerbate tension in the region, ie a “de-escalation on the ground”.
This rapprochement is the main result of the safety stop five held this Sunday in the Jordanian city Akaba, where intelligence officers come from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, USA, Egypt And Jordan, finished off by the presence of the monarch of the Hashemite kingdom and host, Abdalá II.
One of these pacts would be the security deal between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, last broken nearly a month ago in retaliation by the Palestinian government for the deaths of nine people in an Israeli raid on Jenin, north of the West Bank. .
“After extensive talks, the participants announced that the Israeli and Palestinian sides have confirmed their agreement commitment to all previous agreements between them and to work for a just and lasting peacesaid the closing statement of the meeting, collected by the official Jordanian news agency Petra.
In exchange for security guarantees for the Israeli population, the Palestinian Authority has received a commitment from Israel not to discuss the creation of new security units. settlement for a period of four months, and suspends construction of new homes for the next six months.
However, according to authorities, a senior Israeli political source has pointed out that “there will be no change to the decision to regularize nine illegal settlements and build 9,500 new homes in the West Bank.”
At present, the Israeli Settlement Planning Commission is in a three-month deliberation period regarding future settlement decisions in occupied territory and any final decision in this regard would jeopardize the progress of these talks, as previous week explained. Israeli diplomatic sources on these talks.
For the rest, the parties have agreed on a after the meeting in the spa town of Sharm el Sheikh, in Egypt, in less than a monthto assess progress made before the start of Ramadan, the statement said.
Very violent start to the year
The meeting took place at a time of tension between the parties. This Sunday, two Israelis were killed in a shooting in the north of the occupied West Bank, in a context of high tension and as the escalation of violence in the region has continued for weeks.
The current spike in violence has led to the region’s most violent start to the year since 2000. In less than two months, 62 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, largely due to near-daily arrest operations. Palestinian towns that have been happening for almost a year, often leading to armed clashes with Palestinians.
With the Israelis killed in this afternoon’s attack, the death toll on the Israeli side rises to 13 this year, following several deadly attacks by Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem in recent weeks.
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Source: EITB
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