The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign minister Riad al-Malki said on Thursday that the Palestinians are not opposed to a meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, but have conditions for such a meeting.

Speaking to Kol Yisrael radio, al-Malki said that, among other things, the Palestinians demand a “return to the status quo that existed since 1778”, as he put it, and that Israel stop collective punishment and withdraw all its troops from “occupied areas.”


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