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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/590172.html
Sharon, Abbas Meet in Jerusalem
(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn and Arnon Regular - Prime Minister Sharon Tuesday hosted PA Chairman Abbas at his Jerusalem residence for their first working meeting since the Sharm el-Sheikh summit. Abbas said there would be security coordination between the sides and the PA would deploy 5,000 policemen in the Gaza Strip. He also accepted the plan according to which Israel would destroy settlers' homes and the PA would remove the debris using international funding. Sharon announced a number of goodwill gestures. Bethlehem and Kalkilya are to be handed over to PA control within two weeks; the number of Palestinian workers allowed in Israel will be increased; the checkpoints will be improved; and some frail veteran Palestinian prisoners - with "blood on their hands" - will be released.