The Palestinian president’s office says a high-level Palestinian delegation will meet with top Israeli officials in Jordan.
FILE - Palestinian demonstrators clash with the Israeli army while forces carry out an operation in the West Bank town of Nablus, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. A high-level Palestinian delegation will meet with top Israeli officials in Jordan on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023, the Palestinian president's office said, in an attempt to reduce surging tensions ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The statement marked a small sign of progress, but many questions remained. As the negotiators were meeting, a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli brothers in the northern West Bank. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, another settler leader, called for “striking the cities of terror and its instigators without mercy, with tanks and helicopters, in a way that conveys that the master of the house has gone crazy.”
The presence of top officials at the meeting, as well as delegations from Egypt, Jordan and the United States, underscored the severity of the crisis. It was also a rare high-level meeting between the sides, coming during a time of rising tensions and after the Palestinians cut security coordination with Israel over the violence.
Palestinians who oppose any official engagement with Israel said they would protest the meeting, while Hamas criticized the meeting. It called Sunday's shooting “a natural reaction” to Israeli incursions into Palestinian areas of the West Bank and resulting deaths.
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