Kerry Cancels Mideast Trip after ’Israel’ Move

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has cancelled a planned trip to the West Bank city of Ramallah after "Israel" announced plans to build more illegal units on the occupied Palestinian land.

"We are no longer travelling tomorrow," a senior US State Department official said on Tuesday.
Kerry was expected to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, the acting Palestinian Authority [PA] chief, on Wednesday.

Late on Monday, Kerry landed in Occupied Palestine on an apparently unscheduled trip and held more than four hours of talks with "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On Tuesday, he returned to Brussels to attend a NATO summit there. Kerry told a press conference in Brussels that he was not sure yet whether he would return to the Middle East.

"My team is on the ground meeting with the parties even tonight," the top US diplomat said.
Asked if he was going back to the region, he replied, "I'm not sure I'm going.... We have certain things we are trying to figure out in terms of the logistics on the ground and what is possible."

The cancellation came after the regime in Tel Aviv announced new tenders for illegal settlement units in East al-Quds.
"Israel" has also refused to release the last group of Palestinian prisoners from its jails. The release had been agreed as part of efforts to resume so-called peace talks after a three-year break.

The presence and continued expansion of "Israeli" settlements in occupied Palestine has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish so-called peace in the Middle East.

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