Israeli and Palestinian security officials met overnight without achieving any results, and with the two sides accusing each other of violating the precarious ceasefire in force since June 13, said Israel Radio, cited by Haaretz newspaper.
The radio said the US Central Intelligence Agency representative at the talks was forced to admit they had broken down in disagreement.
According to the report, the Palestinians criticized the killing Wednesday morning of a Palestinian woman, and the demolition of Palestinian houses in occupied east Jerusalem and in Rafah.
Israel said that the Palestinians were not upholding the ceasefire, and cited numerous shooting attacks against Jewish settlers, mortar fire and attacks which had taken place over the past few days.
Present at the meeting were Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter, high-ranking security officers, a CIA representative, and high-ranking Palestinian representatives.
A further meeting is scheduled to be held next week, said the report.
Since the September 2000 outbreak of the latest Palestinian uprising against 34 years of Israeli occupation, CNN reports that Palestinians have killed over 112 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. Israeli military sources have reported well over 600 injuries to Israelis of Jewish descent.
In the same time period, according to CNN, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and over 458 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s.
According to Amnesty International, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported over 14,000 Palestinians wounded, and over 520 killed.
Jewish author Noam Chomsky, who according to a New York Times Book Review article is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” has been quoted as saying: “State terrorism is an extreme form of terrorism, generally much worse than individual terrorism because it has the resources of a state behind it.” - Albawaba.com
