Egypt Hosts Israeli-Palestinian Talks in Push for Pre-Ramadan Calm

Egypt hosts Israeli and Palestinian officers on Sunday within the resort metropolis of Sharm el-Sheikh in a US and Jordanian backed effort to calm a surge of violence within the West Financial institution forward of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

The five-way assembly follows a Feb. 26 US-brokered summit in Jordan, the primary of its variety in years, that secured Israeli and Palestinian pledges to de-escalate however was challenged by factions on each side and did not halt violence on the bottom.

The assembly in Sharm el-Sheikh ”goals to assist dialogue between the Palestinian and Israeli sides to work to cease unilateral actions and escalation, and break the present cycle of violence and obtain calm”, an announcement from Egypt’s international ministry mentioned.

This might ”facilitate the creation of a local weather appropriate for the resumption of the peace course of”, it added.

The Palestinians purpose to ascertain an unbiased state within the West Financial institution and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital – territories Israel captured in a 1967 warfare.

However peace talks have been stalled since 2014 and Palestinians say Jewish settlement enlargement has undermined the probabilities of a viable state being established.

The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan begins in late March.

In earlier years, clashes have erupted between Israeli police and Palestinians round Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque on the peak of Ramadan, which coincides this yr with Judaism’s Passover and Christian Easter.

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