We need between three to six months. I am not going to specify the periods now because we have an international committee actually involving the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan and Norway who work with us in the local government elections. I will convene this committee as soon as possible.

Unfortunately we should not expect much out of this summit.

What matters is the content of this summit, not the date,

a monitoring system so they can tell the Israelis what the Palestinians are doing and what they are not doing.

I'm really confused after Mr. Sharon's statement. Is he seeking a pretext for not negotiating, because he said he can't negotiate with us without having a precondition, and then he said we must come to the negotiations without precondition, so he's conditioning us and asking to come into negotiations from scratch.

The house was damaged. The extent of the damage is not yet known. It also is not known if anyone was injured inside the house.