A report on Army Radio Thursday morning quoted Israeli security officials as saying that Israel had decided to hold off on demolishing illegally built Arab structures in Jerusalem, after the United States requested "clarifications" on comments by Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovich that orders to carry out the demolitions would be carried out. The report quoted the sources as saying that the orders would not be cancelled, but that they would not be carried out "in order not to damage the indirect negotiations" between Israel and the PA.