Jordan hosts Israeli -Palestinian talks
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Jordan hosted a meeting between top Israeli and Palestinian officials yesterday to try to halt surging violence, an official said, as Washington and its Arab allies seek to defuse tensions that have led to concern of a wider escalation.
The discussions are part of stepped-up Jordanian diplomacy with Washington and Egypt to address violence, as anxiety mounts of escalation in the run-up to the holy Muslim month of Ramadan that begins in late March.
The meeting at the Red Sea port of Aqaba brought together top Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs for the first time in many years, officials said, and aimed to restore calm in Israel, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
US President Joe Biden’s Middle East adviser Brett McGurk is attending, along with Jordanian and Egyptian officials.
Underlining the challenges, the Palestinian Hamas group – which governs Gaza – criticised the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) for taking part, calling it a “stab in the back of the Palestinian people”.
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