Israel and the Palestinians could sign a peace deal within six months of an international peace conference scheduled for November, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told AFP on Friday. "The meeting in November should define the principles settling the questions over the final status (of the Palestinian territories)," Abbas said in an interview.
"Then we will begin negotiations on the details under a timeframe, which ought not to exceed six months, to reach a peace treaty," he added. The leader of the Palestinian Authority said that the US-sponsored talks would open in Washington on November 15.
Meanwhile, another Palestinian has died of wounds inflicted by an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip this week during a series of operations that killed more than a dozen people, medics said Friday. The death of Shadi Abu Suraya, 30, a local commander in the Army of Islam, brings to 13 the number of Palestinians killed.
