Egyptian intelligence service Head General Omar Suleiman has met the chief of Israel's Mossad secret agency, according to Israel Radio Wednesday.
It did not, however, provide details on either the location or the content of Tuesday's talks between Suleiman and the Mossad boss, General Meir Dagan.
On Tuesday, Suleiman also visited Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Meanwhile, Israel's Army Radio reported Wednesday that as a "gesture" to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Tel Aviv is considering easing a ban on freeing hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners, as well as allowing the return to the West Bank of some 30 Palestinians banished to the Gaza Strip last year after they were holed up in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity for more than a month.
Under pressure by the US adminsitration to shore up Abbas's new Washington-backed government, Israel may lift its blanket ban on releasing jailed Hamas and Islamic Jihad members, and free "adminsitrative" prisoners. (Albawaba.com)
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