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Israeli, Palestinian leaders to meet Monday
AFP - Sunday, November 16
JERUSALEM, (AFP) - - Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday to discuss tensions in the Gaza Strip and the sluggish peace talks, officials said on Saturday.
Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told AFP that the two leaders will meet on Monday at Olmert's Jerusalem residence. A senior Israeli official confirmed the meeting's timing and location.
The meeting, the first in over two months, will focus on the five-month-old ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement that seized power in the Gaza Strip in June 2007, ousting forces loyal to Abbas, the two officials said.
The fragile Egyptian-brokered truce is under severe strain following 12 days of tit-for-tat skirmishes between the Israeli army and Gaza militants.
Abbas was expected to ask Olmert to alleviate Israel's punishing blockade on Gaza, which it completely sealed off last week in response to renewed rocket fire against southern Israel, Erekat said.
The Palestinian leader will also discuss Israel's ongoing settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, "notably in the wake of reports that (Defence Minister Ehud) Barak has authorised new construction," Erekat added.
The two leaders, who last met on September 16, will also continue the Middle East peace talks, which were practically suspended after Olmert stepped down in September over corruption allegations.
The US-backed talks, launched nearly a year ago at an international summit in Annapolis, Maryland, has made little visible progress as both leaders have conceded that they would not meet their declared goal of inking a deal before President George W. Bush leaves office on January 20.
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