US Secretary of State John Kerry has taken off to Rome to meet with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) US Secretary of State John Kerry has taken off to Rome to meet with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)US Secretary of State John Kerry left Washington to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the publication of an international report expected to criticize Israeli settlement building. Kerry was flying to Rome to meet the Israeli leader on Sunday and Monday. The September report cited Israel’s “ongoing settlement activity and the high rate of demolition of Palestinian structures” as “dangerously imperiling the viability” of a two-state deal.

Source: Indian Express June 26, 2016 06:45 UTC