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Israeli-Palestinian talks postponed

Abbas orders halt to attacks

AFP, Ramallah
Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators yesterday to discuss the implementation of agreements reached at this week's Middle East peace summit have been shelved by Israel after a series of mortar attacks in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas responded by giving orders to his security forces to halt the attacks, which come just days after the ceasefire was agreed with Israel at a landmark summit in Egypt.
"The Israelis have informed us that they are postponing the meeting because of the mortar attacks and the security situation in the Gaza Strip," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"The meeting will now take place on Saturday evening or on Sunday," he added.
The meeting had been due to bring Palestinian negotiations
minister Saeb Erakat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's top advisor Dov Weisglass together to discuss the details agreed on at Tuesday's summit in Egypt.
At the summit, Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas both declared an end to four years of violence which has claimed some 4,700 lives.
However the firing of around 30 mortars and rockets on Thursday by the radical Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where thousands of Palestinian security forces have deployed with instructions to stop such attacks, has underlined the challenge facingAbbas to rein in the militants.
Israeli cabinet minister Matan Vilnai said that the firing at the main Gush Katif settlement bloc in southern Gaza represents the first real challenge for the Palestinian leadership of its ceasefire commitment.
"There are forces who will do everything to prevent the disengagement process," he told army
radio in reference to Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.
"It is extremely serious. It is a real test for the Palestinian leadership, which can deal with it. Within a short period we must see an operation by them that stops such things," added the minister without portfolio.
Three more mortar shells were fired by Palestinian militants at a settlement in the Gaza Strip Thursday in another act of defiance against a new ceasefire pledge, Israeli military sources said.
After the latest firing, a statement from Abbas's office said he had given "firm instructions" to his security forces to halt the attacks.
"President Abbas has issued firm instructions to the security services to fully assume their responsibilities in the face of any violation of the period of calm" agreed on between Abbas and militants groups such as Hamas, it said.