The United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority are conducting nighttime talks to find a way to overcome the expiration of Israel’s ten-month freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.
The talks on how to solve the crisis are expected to continue over the next few days.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke twice with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday, and also held conversations with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah II as the freeze wound down to its expiration at midnight.
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