The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) agrees to hold indirect "peace" talks with Israel, disregarding Hamas' disbelief in the US-brokered process.
"The Palestinian leadership has approved the proximity talks," said Jibril Rajub, the deputy secretary general of Fatah, the PLO's largest faction, on Saturday, according to AFP.
The Palestinian side is expected to express its readiness in a meeting with US Middle East envoy George Mitchell later in the day.
The talks were stalled in March after Israel announced a plan to build less than 2,000 settler units in al-Quds (East Jerusalem). Israel occupied al-Quds as part of the West Bank in 1967 and later annexed it.
The Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee, Mahmoud Abbas, had said earlier that Tel Aviv had to choose between peace and continuing settlement construction on the Palestinian lands.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas had, meanwhile, condemned potential resumption of the negotiations, arguing that the move would only serve to facilitate further "Israeli violations" against Palestinians.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=125827§ionid=351020202.
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