Palestinian President Abbas says an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank as part of a future peace deal should not take longer than three years.
Abbas gave the timeframe in an interview shown at an international security conference in Tel Aviv. He said anyone who proposed a 10 to 15 year transition period was not serious about ending the Israeli occupation.
Asked what his administration was doing to maintain security in the West Bank, Abbas said all the security forces are devoted to performing their duty to prevent weapons smuggling and the use of weapons within the Palestinian authority or against Israel.
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, who delivered a speech at the security conference, challenged the effectiveness of the Palestinian leader's security commitments. He alleged Palestinian security services had handled 1,040 cases in 2013 but none went to trial.
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