Senior Israeli, Palestinian security officials meet in Jerusalem: official

Senior Israeli and Palestinian security officials met in Jerusalem late on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories, a Palestinian official said.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that during the meeting, the Palestinian side received an Israeli response to the future of the peace agreements between the two sides.

"The Palestinian security officials conveyed the Israeli letter to the Palestinian political leadership," the official said, but declined to give any more details on what was discussed during the meeting.

The Palestinian delegation included General Majid Farraj, chief of the Palestinian security intelligence, and Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the Palestinian liaison department and civil affairs, and a third senior security chief.

Jamil Shehada, a member of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee, earlier said the committee would convene on Monday.

"The meeting on Monday will discuss what had been discussed during the joint Israeli-Palestinian meeting," Shehada told Xinhua, "but so far, we have no details."

Last year, the PLO Central Council recommended severing security cooperation with Israel and reconsidering the signed agreements, in response to the stalled peace process.

Several Palestinian factions, mainly the Islamic Hamas movement, have rejected any sort of security coordination and cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians.

Peace talks between the two sides, which were sponsored by the United States for nine months, stopped in April 2014 following deep disagreements on settlement, borders and security. Endit