US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in the Middle East to try and promote a framework peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Kerry landed in Tel Aviv on Thursday afternoon, US Embassy spokesman Geoffrey Anisman said, and would shuttle between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
He will stay at least until Friday and possibly Saturday, Anisman said.
The five-month negotiations with a nine-month deadline are reaching a boiling point, not least because of Palestinian anger about ongoing Israeli settlement construction and a dispute regarding the Jordan Valley, along the eastern West Bank.
US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the framework being drafted by Kerry would address all the core issues of the conflict.
That includes Jerusalem, borders, refugees, settlements and security arrangements.
"The framework agreement would serve as guidelines - and I don't know if I would use the word agreement; I would use the term "proposed framework" because it's only a proposed framework at this point," she told reporters in Washington.
Hoping to minimise international criticism during Kerry's visit, Netanyahu has postponed the publication of tenders for the construction of another 1400 settler homes, apparently to next week.
Netanyahu freed another 26 Palestinian prisoners early on Tuesday, as part of a commitment to release a total of 104 militants jailed since before the 1993 Oslo interim peace accords by April.
He also announced more construction projects in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem during previous prisoner releases in August and October, a move designed to appease hardliners in his government.
An associate told Israel Army Radio that Netanyahu was torn between his wish to avoid being blamed for any failure of the peace negotiations, and a sense that he was emerging as a "sucker" because he agreed to free 104 detainees but was "getting nothing in return".
While Netanyahu is under pressure from Kerry to accept a document of principles - expected to include a reference to the lines of before the 1967 war as the basis for the borders of the future Palestinian state - he is also under pressure from hardliners in his government.
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