Palestinians mourn for relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian Authority foreign minister Nasser al-Kidwa are going public with a joint initiative to end the Israel-Hamas war. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian Authority foreign minister Nasser al-Kidwa are going public with a joint initiative to end the Israel-Hamas war.
It would return to Israel's borders to where they were in 1967. Israel would annex 4.4 per cent of the West Bank while the Palestinian state would obtain an equal amount of Israeli territory, which would include a corridor linking the West Bank with the Gaza Strip. "There will be many the Palestinian side as well as the Israeli side will reject this and will criticize us and will condemn us," he said.
Olmert was Israel's 12th prime minister from 2006 to 2009 and led Israel's war with Hezbollah in 2006. Al-Kidwa was the Palestinian Authority foreign minister from 2005 to 2006 and the PLO's representative to the United Nations from 1991 to 2005. He's also the nephew of former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.
"We are doing our best. We are working day and night to achieve exactly that by making it known to the public, and by also trying to make it available to many governments, as many as possible," said al-Kidwa.
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