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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Rice tours flashpoint West Bank town AFP - 1 hour 17 minutes ago JENIN, West Bank (AFP) - - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday toured the flashpoint West Bank town of Jenin where hundreds of Palestinian police have deployed as part of US-sponsored peace efforts. The site of fierce clashes during the Palestinian uprising which broke out in 2000, Jenin has become a showcase for president Mahmud Abbas's efforts to reassert his authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the two sides renewed peace talks nearly a year ago. The top US diplomat's convoy passed through Israeli army checkpoints at the entrance to Jenin and went directly to the city's hospital where Rice inaugurated a wing renovated by US development aid. She then met Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad together with the US security coordinator in the region, General Keith Dayton, who has helped to revamp the Palestinian Authority's security forces. The more than 900-strong security forces have pressed a crackdown largely aimed at members of the Islamist Hamas movement, which seized power in the Gaza Strip in June after routing Abbas's forces. Israel, which has welcomed Abbas's efforts, nevertheless remains in full control in the occupied territory and regularly carries out raids in Palestinian towns including Jenin. Jenin governor Qadoura Moussa said during the visit that the security situation in his city has considerably improved and the Israeli army has carried out less incursions into Jenin in recent months. General Dayton said that Israeli military operation in Jenin have dropped by 40 percent over the past year. "I am getting very interesting signs from the Israelis that they are ready to take further steps" towards the Palestinians, he told reporters. Rice arrived in the region on Thursday for talks ahead of a Sunday summit in Egypt with the international Quartet of peace sponsors during which Israeli and Palestinian leaders are expected to reaffirm their commitment to the process launched at a conference in Annapolis, outside Washington, last November. On Friday, Rice said Palestinians should soon have their own state, but also made it clear she did not expect the sides to meet their goal of signing a peace deal before Barack Obama moves into the White House on January 20. "They are dignified people and I am certain the day is coming soon when they have a state that will be in accordance with that great national dignity," she said after meeting Abbas. In the absence of an accord, Rice is pushing the two sides to define the outlines of a deal before she hands over the thorny Middle East dossier to an Obama administration. "The Annapolis process is vital, it is vibrant and it continues," she said, even though little tangible process has been achieved, with core issues dealing with the status of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the borders of a future Palestinian state still to be resolved. Peace efforts have also been hobbled by the division of the Palestinian territories into a West Bank where the secular Abbas holds sway and a Gaza Strip run by Hamas. Reconciliation talks due to be held in Cairo next week were called off on Saturday after Hamas announced a boycott to protest the detention of hundreds of its members by Abbas's security forces. The slow-moving peace process has been further dragged down by the political turmoil surrounding the resignation of Israel's scandal-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that has led to the scheduling of snap elections in February. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Paloma strengthens to Category Four hurricaneAFP - 27 minutes ago Hawaii County latest to make pot low priorityAP - 1 hour 16 minutes ago Rice tours flashpoint West Bank townAFP - 1 hour 17 minutes ago Worshippers hold a banner with the picture of Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, a revered Shiite religious leader and father of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-AP - 1 hour 38 minutes ago Iraq deputy PM says Iraqis still need USAP - 1 hour 46 minutes ago Enlarge Photo US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, seen here on November 6, has toured the flashpoint West Bank town of Jenin where hundreds of Palestinian police have deployed as part of US-sponsored peace efforts. Most Popular – World Viewed IMF sees recession in advanced economies in 2009 Among Obama's next challenges: his own security US doctors tell Liu Xiang he needs surgery Airline profits nosedive as leaders debate finance crisis Obama discusses global financial crisis with world leaders View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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