#Israel to halt contacts with #Palestine over international treaties
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Israeli Prime Minister #benjamin_netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting on April 6, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Gali Tibbon)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a halt to high-level contacts with the Palestinians on non-security related issues, but exempted his chief peace negotiator from the ban, government officials said on Wednesday. One Israeli official called Netanyahu’s order a response to “the Palestinians’ grave violation of their commitments in the framework of the peace talks” - an apparent reference to the Palestinian Authority signing of 15 international conventions last week. read (...)