Fatah and Hamas have resumed negotiations in Cairo to put into practice the reconciliation agreement reached in April. Discussions went well with the two parties deciding to continue talks in the beginning of September to level the remaining issues not agreed upon, among others the formation of the new government.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday Israel should sever contacts with the Palestinian Authority over its plans to ask the United Nations in September to upgrade the Palestinians' status in the world body. Lieberman said he would "demand that we cut off all contact" with the Palestinian Authority, led by Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas, "at the earliest moment," ahead of a request to upgrade Palestinian status at the United Nations.[...](Reuters, 16h59)
In spite of the Saturday arrest of two Islamists suspected to have shelled Israel, a new rocket fired on Sunday by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fell in Southern Israel without victims or casualties.
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