The "roadmap" was drafted by envoys from the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia........It calls for an immediate ceasefire, a crackdown on Palestinian militants, an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian towns and the dismantling of Jewish settlements erected since 2001. ..<sinp>...... Officials on both sides have reacted guardedly to the plan.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Mark Sofer told the BBC: "Before anything can happen we are hoping and praying that Abu Mazen takes the bull by the horns and implements what he said he would... He has to really bring an end to terrorism."
Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, for her part, urged the international community "to make sure that Israel complies by stopping this policy of assassinations, incursions, killings, home demolitions, land confiscations, expansion of settlements".
The Palestinian militant group Hamas rejected the "roadmap" outright.
"It is a plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause," Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said.