JERUSALEM - Israel said yesterday that it would not redeploy its troops in the West Bank city of Hebron until the Palestinian Authority closed its offices in Arab East Jerusalem. Under a peace accord with the PLO Israel at the end of March was due to have redeployed its troops in Hebron, the last major Arab West Bank city still under Israeli control.
"We are demanding that Jerusalem offices be closed," the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, was quoted by an official as telling a closed door session of Israel's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee.