Mubarak phone call from Ben Eliezer

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on Monday evening received a telephone call from the Israeli defense minister Benyamin Ben Eliezer dealing with the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the continued Israeli siege of the headquarters of the Palestinian authority in Ramullah and other Palestinian cities.

The Sawt al-Arab radio said that Mubarak asserted the need of lifting the siege from the Palestinians and the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian cities and villages.