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Ramallah (ANTARA News / Xinhua-Oana) - Invite the President of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of not more than mere propaganda, said Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Thursday.

"Invite Netanyahu's goal to cover the illegal practices of the Israeli government in Jerusalem," Erekat said, referring to the expansion of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem which Israel annexed.

Prime Minister Netanyahu after his meeting with U.S. Special Envoy on the Middle East, Goerge Mitchell, Wednesday, convey his invitation to Abbas to a meeting in Jerusalem.

Palestine and Israel in May and then start again the meeting was not initiated by the United States directly, with the aim to start direct negotiations stagnant since the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip in December 2008.

Israeli military incursion into Gaza that Hamas factions aimed at ending the mastery over the area.

Commenting on the Israeli arrest of Palestinian parliament members who are affiliated with Hamas, Erekat said the Jewish state has no right to arrest any member of parliament because they have a political affiliation.

Israeli police on Wednesday arrested Mohammed Abu Teir, the representative of Jerusalem in the Palestinian parliament, and brought him to places unknown.

In early June, the Israeli authorities ordered four members of parliament who live in Jerusalem to leave the city at the end of the month.

Israel and the United States to enter the Islamic movement Hamas in the blacklist as a terrorist organization that was accused of having launched a number of deadly suicide bombings against Israel.

Hamas seized control of Gaza by force in 2007.