A diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post that Budapest now considers it wiser to allow the issue of settler sanctions to go forward in exchange for movement on other issues.
The Saudi A-Sharq Al-Awsat cited one of the squad members as claiming that the guard squad, established with the approval of the factions and the national consensus, will protect the aid trucks.
Hamas said the decision was taken without consulting it despite recently taking part in a meeting in Moscow also attended by Abbas's Fatah movement to end long-time divisions.
"PA forces supposedly fighting terror are the ones carrying out acts of terror themselves, and the PA, instead of decrying it – encourages it," says Naomi Kahn of Regavim.
The Palestinian Authority, set up three decades ago under the interim peace agreement known as the Oslo Accords, exercises governance over parts of the West Bank.
Amounts received in such lawsuits will not be deducted from the amount paid to victims of terrorism on behalf of the state.
Israelis support IDF action in Gaza to destroy Hamas and they do not support the return of the PA to Gaza, Netanyahu said.
Israel has preferred not to have the Palestinian Authority move into areas in Gaza where Hamas is now weak.
Pardo said that another option would be to try to turn a terror group into a political group, as was done in Ireland.
Salam Fayyad, former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, said that a two-state solution should be based on a sovereign Palestinian state on the territory occupied in 1967.
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