Israel and the Palestinians agreed to open a safe-passage route between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and that construction of a seaport in Gaza should begin Oct. 1. The agreement on the route came as negotiators failed to reach an agreement on the Israeli release of Palestinian prisoners and as two senior Palestinian envoys arrived in Washington for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ahead of her visit to the Middle East.
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