Oslo II

  • Topic

The provisions of this new agreement, which are far more comprehensive and detailed than those of Oslo I, included the following measures:

  • Elections for a chair and council to govern the PA, including the participation of Palestinians in Jerusalem in the election process

  • Redeployment of Israeli security forces from the cities of Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm, Qalqilyah, Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as some 440 villages, before elections were to be held

  • Specifications for the redeployment of Israeli security forces in Hebron, a West Bank city with both Palestinian and Israeli communities

  • Delineation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into three types of territory in the interim period:

    • Area A: areas under Palestinian administration and security

    • Area B: areas under Palestinian administration but joint Israeli-Palestinian security

    • Area C: areas under Israeli administration and security

  • Prevention of acts of terrorism, crime, and hostilities directed against each other

  • Arrangements for safe passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

  • Guarantees that negotiations on outstanding issues (i.e., Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, and borders) would commence no later than May 4, 1996

  • A deadline of May 4, 1999, for Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to arrive at a permanent resolution


Name

Oslo II

Description

Negotiations continued despite attempts by religious nationalists on both sides to disrupt the process set out by the Oslo I agreement. On September 28, 1995, Rabin, Peres, and Arafat signed the Oslo II Accords (formally Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip), which detailed the expansion of Palestinian self-rule to population centres other than Gaza and Jericho.

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Topic

Broader topics

The Oslo Accords

Related topics

Oslo I

Tags

Israel - Palestine conflict