Implementation of the "Gaza First" security plan, which involves a phased Israeli withdrawal from reoccupied Palestinian areas, is to start in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank town of Bethlehem "within 48 hours," a senior aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Monday.
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Implementation of the "Gaza First" security plan, which involves a phased Israeli withdrawal from reoccupied Palestinian areas, is to start in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank town of Bethlehem "within 48 hours," a senior aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Monday.
"There was an agreement at the meeting that the Gaza First plan would begin in Gaza and Bethlehem within 48 hours," Nabil Abu Rudeina told.
His comments came in the wake of a meeting Sunday night between Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer and Palestinian interior minister Abdel Razaq al-Yahya, after which Israel said it would begin implementing the security plan on Monday.
"The delegations agreed there would be meetings between local security leaders (on both sides) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to continue implementing these steps and to move them into other Palestinian cities," he said.
Further steps in the implementation of the plan would be taken in the next few days, Abu Rudeina added. |
