Netanyahu to attend crisis meeting in Amman
Israel’s
prime minister has confirmed he will attend talks in Amman with
Jordan’s King Abdullah and the US secretary of state aimed at calming a
wave of violence grippling Israel and the occupied territories.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement on Thursday came just hours after John Kerry met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan, who will be excluded from the trilateral talks.
“According to the royal court, we understand that this meeting is going to happen shortly and that in this meeting the three leaders will discuss ways to return calm in Jerusalem,” Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh reported from Amman.
“They will also talk about the possibility of relaunching negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.”
She said it was highly significant that the US was mediating the talks, because it showed how tense the relations between Jordan and Israel had become in recent months.
The two countries have a peace treaty and, until now, their leaders were meeting regularly without the need for outside involvement.
Simmering unrest in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem has in recent days spread to the occupied West Bank and Arab communities across Israel, raising fears of a new Palestinian uprising.
Courtesy: Punch Newspaper.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement on Thursday came just hours after John Kerry met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan, who will be excluded from the trilateral talks.
“According to the royal court, we understand that this meeting is going to happen shortly and that in this meeting the three leaders will discuss ways to return calm in Jerusalem,” Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh reported from Amman.
“They will also talk about the possibility of relaunching negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.”
She said it was highly significant that the US was mediating the talks, because it showed how tense the relations between Jordan and Israel had become in recent months.
The two countries have a peace treaty and, until now, their leaders were meeting regularly without the need for outside involvement.
Simmering unrest in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem has in recent days spread to the occupied West Bank and Arab communities across Israel, raising fears of a new Palestinian uprising.
Courtesy: Punch Newspaper.
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