Israeli MPs pay visit to PLO offices

JERUSALEM - A handful of deputies from an Israeli parliamentary committee visited Orient House, the PLO's Jerusalem headquarters…

JERUSALEM - A handful of deputies from an Israeli parliamentary committee visited Orient House, the PLO's Jerusalem headquarters, yesterday in defiance of government policy. The chairman of the Knesset Interior Committee, Mr Salah Tarif of the Labour Party, organised the visit, hosted by Mr Faisal al Husseini, the senior PLO official in Jerusalem.

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