NNA - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will hold talks Wednesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to try to keep the peace process from collapsing, urging them to reach a long-elusive deal.



But a senior Palestinian official, who asked to remain anonymous, told Agence France Presse that the Palestinians would refuse to continue the talks as long as Jewish settlement on the West Bank proliferates.



"The Israeli side is determined to continue its settlement and we cannot continue negotiations under these unprecedented settlement attacks," he said after a stormy meeting of Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.


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