A report in a Lebanese paper over the weekend said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had offered another temporary freeze deal to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas – who turned it down. According to PA negotiators Sa'eb Erekat, who was quoted in Sunday's edition of the Al-Mustaqbel newspaper, Netanyahu offered to renew the freeze after completion of some 1,600 homes in Judea and Samaria that are now under construction, many of them started after the end of the last freeze. The second freeze, Netanyahu said, would absolutely be the last one, and was being offered to lure the PA back to the negotiating table.

Erekat told the paper that the U.S. had communicated Netanyahu's offer to Abbas, who turned it down.