Israeli Withdrawal Plan Rejected

The Palestinians on Sunday rejected Israel’s decision to withdraw from 9 percent more of occupied territories, adding an unexpected new crisis to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s troubles.

After a three-hour meeting of Foreign Minister David Levy and other Israeli officials at which details of the pullback were supposed to have been worked out, the Palestinian negotiator, Mohammed Dahlan, declared that the territory to be turned over was insufficient.

“We totally rejected their percentage,” he said.