But Abbas appeared to leave the door open to a final decision on resuming talks with Israel in some form or other, saying he would first hold further consultations with Arab and Palestinian officials. "There must be clear references for peace... and we will discuss all that with the follow-up committee, the Palestinian leadership and after that there will be a decision," he said.
Egypt's government daily Al-Ahram quoted the Palestinian ambassador to Cairo Barakat al-Farra as saying that Abbas would travel later to Amman for consultations with Jordan's King Abdullah II. Abbas arrived Wednesday in Cairo from Athens and immediately went into talks with Arab League chief Amr Mussa who later told reporters that a ministerial committee on the so-called peace process would convene next week.
Washington on Tuesday announced that weeks-long efforts to coax Israel into imposing new curbs on settlement construction had failed, leaving direct talks deadlocked.
Most of those abducted were former prisoners in Israeli occupation jails, the sources noted.
Relatives of Dr. Adnan Masswada, from al-Khalil, said that he was rushed to hospital few hours after his abduction at the hands of those militias four days ago, adding that he underwent an urgent cardiac catheterization.
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