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GAZA, Oct 17 (KUNA) -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will
consider several political options to respond to Israeli attempts to impede
the peace process in the Mideast, said Secretary of the Executive Committee of
the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Abd-Rabbo here Sunday.
Abd-Rabbo told Palestine Radio that Israel was insisting on using the
current peace process as a camouflage to continue the expansion of settlements
over Palestinian lands, an act considered hazardous to the whole of
international and US efforts to resume peace talks.
Continuing to build settlements and insisting on imposing steps on
Palestinians would only prove to hinder hopes for peace in the region, said
Abd-Rabbo, stressing that the Palestinian authority would clinch on to its
demands to stop settlement expansions as well as issues concerning the final
issues concerning the peace process namely providing Palestinians with an
independent state within the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as their capital.
The Israeli Housing Ministry had over new tenders to build hundreds of new
housing units in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the first announcement of such
kind since the expiring of the 10-month settlement moratorium.
Palestinians are considering a once-side announcement of a Palestinian
state in light of the Israeli decision to continue to build settlements in
Jerusalem and the West Bank. (end)
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