Colombian foreign minister conveys Netanyahu proposal to Palestine 

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin conveyed Israel’s conditional offer to freeze government construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, international media reported Friday.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Holguin Wednesday that Israel is willing to freeze government construction on government (but not private) land in the West Bank in return for an agreement from President Abbas to resume direct peace talks.

According to Colombian news site El Tiempo, Holguin transmitted the message to Abbas. The Palestinian president has reportedly not yet responded to Netanyahu’s proposal.Netanyahu specified that he was not offering to halt construction by private Israeli companies or construction on private land in the West Bank.According to Israeli news source Haaretz, only a very small percentage of Israeli construction in the West Bank is carried out by the government itself, rendering Netanyahu’s offer more of a symbolic gesture than a real concession.

  

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