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Palestinians reject US security ideas for Israel peace accord

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05-12-2013 | 12:54

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Palestinians rejected ideas raised by visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday for security arrangements under a possible future peace accord with Israel, a Palestinian official said.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and declined to elaborate on the proposals, said Kerry presented them to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after discussing them separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"The Palestinian side rejected them because they would only lead to prolonging and maintaining the occupation," the official said, referring to Israel's hold on the West Bank, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood.

Earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that some progress had been made in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and that he had presented Israel with ideas for improving its security under any future accord.

Acknowledging Israel's concerns that handing over occupied territory to form part of a Palestinian state could make it vulnerable to attack, Kerry said he had offered Netanyahu "some thoughts about that particular security challenge". He did not elaborate.

On another note, US Secretary of State Kerry assured Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that core sanctions against Iran would remain in place despite its interim nuclear deal with world powers.

"The fundamental sanctions regime of oil and banking remains absolutely in place. It is not changed. And we will be stepping up our effort of enforcement through the Treasury Department and through the appropriate agencies of the United States," Kerry told reporters in Jerusalem.

Speaking earlier, Netanyahu told Kerry "steps must be taken to prevent a further erosion of sanctions". The sanctions were eased after the deal struck in Geneva last month, to which Israel strongly objected.

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