Arab League meets on Nov 29

The Arab League will hold an extraordinary meeting next week to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories in the presence of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, an official said yesterday.

The meeting on November 29 comes as annexed Arab east Jerusalem is roiled by months of unrest, which has spread across the occupied West Bank and to Arab communities inside Israel.

Four rabbis and a policeman were killed last week when two Palestinians carrying meat cleavers and a pistol launched a rare attack on a place of worship, in Jerusalem's deadliest violence in six years.

Arab foreign ministers meeting Saturday will discuss the latest unrest as well as plans by the Palestinians to seek "membership in UN agencies", Arab League deputy chief Ahmed Ben Helli told reporters.