Meanwhile, Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr, a political independent, said the fighting could be calmed by a resumption of peace talks and end to the international boycott on the Palestinian government.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr: “In order to salvage the situation, perhaps we need to go back to peace negotiations immediately. We need to resume economic assistance for the Palestinian people. We need to engage the Palestinians constructively. We need to end a political siege. So this is the way to help the Palestinians solve that internal violence and problems instead of locking them into this cage, putting them under siege, having them live under the most adversarial conditions.”