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Reuters: Israel Rejects 3-Month Extension Of Settlement Curbs

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Tags: Israel, Israeli settlement, West Bank

Israel has rejected a proposal to extend by three months a West Bank settlement building freeze whose looming expiration threatens to sink peace talks, officials close to the negotiations said on Thursday.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told Israel's Channel 1 television on Thursday he proposed a three-month extension of the moratorium in a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.

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