Netanyahu: Mahmoud Abbas was aware of Israeli settlement plans during negotiations

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the PA position regarding settlement construction that considered settlement activities in the West Bank a violation of the peace negotiations conditions.Netanyahu said in a meeting with Likud bloc that the PA led by Mahmoud Abbas is trying to create a crisis in the negotiations, adding that Palestinians "were aware on the eve of the negotiations, that Israel "will not be subjected to any restrictions concerning settlement."For his part, Wasfi Qabaha, the former minister of the prisoners, stated that the absurd negotiations provide a cover to the Israeli schemes to divide al-Aqsa mosque.He accused the PA of making unilateral decisions regardless of all national calls for achieving reconciliation and unity.The release of 26 Palestinian prisoners is twenty years late, he said, condemning security coordination between Israeli and Palestinian authorities.He pointed out to the resistance activities that escalated recently in West Bank as a response to the negotiation failure over 20 years in addition to the difficult economic and social conditions and Israeli attacks on al-Aqsa mosque./129