Israel, Palestinians End Security Meeting Without ResultsIsraeli and Palestinian officials have ended a security meeting without results after each side blamed the other for the still ongoing violence despite a U.S.- brokered ceasefire, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.The United States criticized both sides for the upsurge of violence on Monday that threatened to wreck the fragile ceasefire brokered by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet. The security meeting, held in Tel Aviv late Monday night, was called by CIA officials after an Israeli was killed and two bombs rocked the Israeli town of Yehud near Tel Aviv on Monday. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical Palestinian faction, said that the bombing attacks were in retaliation for the Israeli assassination of three Islamic Jihad activists late Sunday night near the West Bank city of Jenin. At least 15 Palestinians and eight Israelis have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on June 13. |
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