Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the Arab League Foreign Ministers emergency meeting at the League's headquarters in Cairo, December 21, 2013. REUTERS/ Mohamed Abd El Ghany
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians disagreed sharply on Tuesday over the effectiveness of security measures by the regional Palestinian administration in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, deepening doubt about peace prospects in U.S.-brokered talks.
Foreign powers have been helping build up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security services in the West Bank to prevent militant attacks on Israelis and ward off any challenge from breakaway Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip.
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