Erekat: U.S. Told Netanyahu to “Curb Israeli Settlement Building”
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace team told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that settlement construction must be limited, chief [PLO] negotiator Saeb Erekat said he was informed on Tuesday by the American team.
Erekat, Palestinian Authority General Intelligence Services chief Majid Faraj, and Palestine Investment Fund chairman Muhammad Mustafa met two members of Trump’s Middle East peace team, Jason Greenblatt and David Friedman, on Tuesday at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
“We discussed the issue [settlements] for a long time and…they [the Americans] said they told Netanyahu that restricting settlement construction is necessary,” Erekat told the Voice of Palestine, an official PA radio station, on Wednesday.