Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein al-Sheikh, in the second such meeting over the past few months, Israeli and Palestinian officials say.
Al-Sheikh is a close adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas and the official responsible for managing Ramallah’s ties with Israel. For decades, senior Israeli officials rarely met with their Palestinian counterparts, but that has begun to change under the current government.
Al-Sheikh writes in a tweet that he told Lapid about the need for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as well as the “regional and international situation.”
“I assured him of the need for a political horizon based on signed agreements [between Israel and the PA] and international resolutions, as well as the cessation of unilateral measures that impede a two-state solution,” writes al-Sheikh.
A spokesperson for Lapid confirms the meeting but adds no further details.
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