The head of the Palestinian Authority received, on Sunday evening Ramallah, members of the Left Training Meretz, including two ministers. This is its second official meeting in almost a month with members of the new Israeli government.
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An interview was held in Ramallah, Sunday, October 3 late in the evening, between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and an Israeli delegation. Mr. Abbas received, at the Headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, Nitzan Horowitz and Issawi Freij, respectively Israeli ministers of health, and regional cooperation, as well as MP Michal Rozin, all of Left Training Meretz , Member of the new Israeli Coalition Government.
“The Chairman stressed the importance of putting an end to the Israeli occupation and reaching a fair and comprehensive peace in accordance with international resolutions, and the need to end the colonies” and “the deportation” of Palestinian families in different parts of Jerusalem East, informed the official Palestinian agency Wafa.
These members of the Party Meretz affirmed their support “to the two-state solution”, an independent and viable Palestine alongside Israel, and the need to “cooperate to establish bridges and trust” between Israelis and Palestinians , added the agency.
“We have a common mission: to maintain the hope of a peace based on a two-state solution because there are no other solutions,” wrote late Sunday on Twitter Nitzan Horowitz, head of the Training Meretz, By posting a photo alongside President Mahmoud Abbas , taken “tonight in Ramallah”.
Reviews within the Israeli Right
“We have taken a new step in depthing cooperation with our nearest and most important neighbors,” Horowitz added, whose meeting with the Palestinian authority’s boss arouses criticism within the Israeli right.
In late August, the Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, had already gone to the HQ of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to discuss security and economy with Mahmoud Abbas. It was the first meeting at this officially announced level for years.
“There is no peace process with the Palestinians and there will not be”, however, had moderate a source close to the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, after the Abbas-Gantz interview.
The Sunday evening meeting between the Palestinian President and an Israeli delegation coincides with talks in Cairo between the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Egypt about the possible exchange of prisoners between Israel. and this armed Islamist movement.