Hamas has called for the Arab League to...

Arab League foreign ministers agreed to support the U.S.-backed plan during a regular meeting in Cairo on Wednesday, giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas political backing to push through the resumption of talks.

"We expected that the meeting of Arab [foreign] ministers in Cairo would demonstrate a more firm position... Instead of this, their decision provides Arab auspices for the resumption of talks amid continuing intrusion on the Palestinian capital [Jerusalem] and Jewdaization of its holy places," Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, said during a government meeting on Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced last week that two holy sites located in the Palestinian Territories and once shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims — Rachel"s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron — would be included in a list of 150 Israeli National Heritage Sites. The move, which is seen as an effort to control the

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