A senior official says Mahmoud Abbas will ask India's visiting prime minister to support a multi-country sponsorship that would replace the United States as the sole mediator in future negotiations.
The two main Palestinian political factions, Hamas and Fatah, have started discussing ways to break the ice of relations at a meeting in the Gaza Strip.
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has criticized Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, calling the move a “violation of international law.”