JERUSALEM, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Tuesday to instruct their negotiating teams to hold talks on core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an Israeli official said. "Today the two leaders agreed to authorise the negotiating teams to conduct direct and ongoing negotiations on all the core issues," Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said after the prime minister met Abbas in Jerusalem. "We expect that to start expeditiously."
Relatives of Islamic Jihad militant Basam Abu Mustafa, who was killed by Israeli gunfire, mourn during his funeral in southern Gaza January 8, 2008. Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian militants, ...
