Satterfield meets with Quartet committee representatives

David Satterfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs met in Jerusalem on Friday with the representatives of the Quartet committee and briefed them on the talks he held with Israeli officials.

The Israeli radio quoted American sources saying that the American official will meet today with several official in the Palestinian Authority including the interior ministry official Abdul Rizzq al- Yahya, the Palestinian official in charge of planning and international cooperation Nabeel Shaath and media official Yasser Abd Rabbu in order to discuss developments in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Al-Yahya said in an interview with the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot that he had informed the leaders of the Palestinian resistance movements the need to halt the implementation of "martyrdom operation." He added that these operations are a violation to the international law.