RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei will travel to the Gaza Strip on Monday to hold talks with the Islamic Jihad movement over its commitment to a troubled truce, sources said.Qoreiâs office said on Sunday that the prime minister would host Tuesdayâs weekly cabinet meeting in Gaza and hold talks with security commanders about the law and order crisis which saw him threaten to suspend his government earlier this month. Official and militant sources in Gaza also said that Qorei would meet with Jihad whose commitment to a truce, or what radical factions call a âcooldown periodâ, has been called into question after a number of deadly attacks. âThey will discuss the cooldown, and the escalations, especially by the Israelis and Jihad,â one Palestinian official said.
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Israel had called off its arrest operations in the wake of the truce, which while less than watertight had led to a major drop in violence. Scores of Jihad activists were arrested last week, with the Israeli army saying it had âtaken the gloves offâ.
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