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Jared Kushner visits home of Israeli policewoman killed in terror attack

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25 June, 2017

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and top White House adviser, has arrived in Israel to help revive a U.S. effort for Middle East peace.

Netanyahu went on to say that Trump's visit to Israel last month was a "historic trip, with fantastic warmth, and made an indelible impression on the people of Israel".

However, journalists were prevented from even filming Kushner's arrival at Netanyahu's office.

Kushner is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his West Bank headquarters in Ramallah on Wednesday evening following the Iftar meal breaking the day's Ramadan fast.

Mr. Trump has tasked Kushner with the ambitious goal of laying the groundwork for what he calls the "ultimate deal" - but deep divisions remain, clouding chances of a significant breakthrough in one of the longest Mideast crises.

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of global law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the worldwide community. Jason Greenblatt, Trump's global envoy, will arrive on Monday. But he did not offer any details on how to move forward and avoided issues that have stymied all previous attempts at a peace agreement, including the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlement construction and the Palestinians' demand for a sovereign nation.

Israeli bulldozers on Wednesday embarked on razing lands belonging to Palestinians in order to make way for a new settlement to south to Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, local sources said.

The Trump administration has discouraged settlement activity but has not taken as hard of a line as former President Obama. But while Netanyahu has been repeatedly critical of Abbas, including in a tweetstorm on Saturday night, Trump has declared that he believes the PA president is "ready to reach for peace".

"Kushner said that President Trump himself asked him to express condolences on behalf of the USA", a friend of the family told the Hebrew-language Ynet news site.

Kushner's first act on arriving in Israel was to pay a condolence visit on behalf of Trump to the family of Hadas Malka, the Israeli policewoman killed during an attack by three Palestinian assailants on Friday in Jerusalem.

Immediately after he arrived in Israel on Wednesday, Kushner visited the family of Staff Sgt. Maj.

It was the latest incident in a wave of Palestinian attacks that began in September 2015.


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