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• U.S. envoy slams Israel for employing double legal standard on West Bank settlement policy, Netanyahu outraged

  U.S. ambassador to Israel angers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ by calling Israel's West Bank settlement policy as having a double legal standard on the same day an Israeli mother was killed by a Palestinian terrorist.

• Israel responds to Fatas-Hamas accord with suspension of Palestinian peace talks

  Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that his country will be suspending its peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority and will consider reviving the talks when Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas abandons the unity deal it has struck with Hamas.

• Fatah-Hamas accord may threaten Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

  A political expert warns the diplomatic implications of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Fatah party reaching an accord with a branded terrorist Hamas in the middle of the Western Asian regional government's peace negotiations with Israel.

• US-backed Peace talks stalled after Israeli negotiator says country will not release Palestinian prisoners

  The peace talks between Israel and Palestine has been threatened yet again when Israel told Palestinian negotiators in an all-night meeting that it will not proceed to release the remaining long-serving Palestinian inmates as the latter had taken steps to get recognition from the United Nations, unnamed officials close to the talks told The Washington Post.

• Sources say negotiators to meet to revive beleaguered Israeli-Palestinian peace pact

  Negotiators from Palestine, Israel and the US are said to be meeting to salvage the peace talks that were threatened when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed several international conventions against Israel yesterday, VOA said, citing sources.

• Report raises justification of Pollard release

  A foreign affairs expert explained in a TIME report that convicted spy Jonathan Pollard's release is justified if it would help improve the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

• Israel Releases Palestinian Prisoners: 26 Transferred Out of Jails by Convoys (Video)

  26 Palestinian prisoners were released on Tuesday night as part of an Israeli gesture to the Palestinian Authority following the resumpton of peace talks.

• Middle East Peace Process: Secretary of State Holds Meeting with Israeli and Palestinian Officials, Sets 9-Month Goal (Video)

  Middle East peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians will officially resume in the next two weeks, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Tuesday at the State Department with negotiators from both sides.