Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that he and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu are to meet with White House officials to draft an agreement the US will promote to the Fatah-led half of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

In a Voice of Israel government radio report, Barak is quoted as saying that the negotiations with the PA are intended to reach an agreement that includes "the end of the conflict and all mutual claims, the establishment of an economically and territorially viable Palestinian State alongside Israel, and the end of the occupation that began in 1967."