The PA will resume indirect talks with Israel in the coming days, despite the threats and strong condemnations coming from Ramallah over an Interior Ministry committee’s approval of plans to build 1,600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo in east Jerusalem, a senior PA official in Ramallah said Wednesday.
The official’s comments came after visiting US Vice President Joe Biden condemned the plan for the second time in 24 hours, this time standing in Ramallah next to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“Yesterday the decision by the Israeli government to advance planning for new housing units in east Jerusalem undermined that very trust, the trust that we need right now in order to begin as well as have profitable negotiations. That is why I immediately condemned the action,” Biden said after meeting Abbas.
The vice president added that the US “will hold both sides accountable for any statements or actions that inflame tensions or prejudice the outcome of talks, as this decision did.”
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