Sharm El-Sheikh Understandings
- Sharm El-Sheikh Understandings
On 8 February 2005, one month after the election of
Mahmoud Abbas as president of the
Palestinian Authority (PA), a series of bilateral meetings and a four-way meeting involving Abbas, Israeli
prime minister Ariel Sharon,
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and Jordan's King
Abdullah II, was convened at
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The meetings produced a series of diplomatic understandings. Abbas and Sharon agreed to a mutual cease-fire. Israel agreed to immediately release 500
Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture, with 400 more to be released later. Steps were to be taken toward withdrawing Israeli forces from the Palestinian population centers partially reoccupied for security purposes during
Operation Defensive Shield. At the regional level, Egypt and Jordan agreed to return their ambassadors to Israel, who had been recalled following the outbreak of the
Al-Aksa intifada in the fall of 2000.
Historical Dictionary of Israel.
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