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efforts.On Wednesday, chief Palestinian presidential advisor Sahib Oreikat pulled out of the Qaurtet meeting, because of the "deterioration in the situation in the Palestinian territories." The announcement followed an earlier statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that Israel would on no account suspend building in East Jerusalem.
Netanyahu plans to visit Washington next week for talks with Clinton.
The housing dispute has caused an upsurge of violence in the Middle East. Earlier on Friday, an Israeli aircraft bombed six targets in the Gaza Strip in response to a Palestinian rocket attack which killed a Thai agricultural worker in southern Israel on Thursday.
Settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, both occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, has been the main obstacle to reviving peace talks.
Under the internationally agreed roadmap for Middle East peace, Israel is obliged to freeze
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