Fayyad changes schedule after Jerusalem ban

02/11/2010

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad canceled a planned visit to an East Jerusalem school on Tuesday, celebrating is renovation by the government, informed sources told Ma'an.

The schedule switch, which will see Fayyad tour schools in areas of the Jerusalem municipality that remain inside the West Bank, was made following an Israeli government decision to ban the official's visits to schools in areas illegally annexed by Israel in the mid-1980s following the occupation of the West Bank in 1967.

According to Monday reports from Israel's daily newspaper Haaretz, the decision was based on the decade-old order prohibiting Palestinian Authority events in the city. While officials have in the past been permitted to visit Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem, government events have been quashed.

Fifteen schools in areas of the Jerusalem municipality remain on Fayyad's schedules, sources said.

Source: Ma'an News Agency.
Link: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=330032.