Israel's public broadcaster KAN revealed on Tuesday evening that Israeli and Palestinian officials will meet in Sharm al-Sheikh in Egypt ahead of Ramadan, set to begin mid of next week, in another regional attempt to try to calm tensions in the West Bank.

A first such meeting took place on Feb. 26 in Aqaba, Jordan. Haaretz reported that the summit in Sharm al-Sheikh will take place on Sunday. 

The Aqaba meeting was convened at the initiative of the Biden administration and under the auspices of Jordanian King Abdullah. It included representatives from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the United States, Egypt and Jordan. The summit ended with an agreement to establish a joint security committee to examine renewing Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation and another to establish a civilian committee to advance confidence-building economic measures. The participants agreed to hold another summit in Egypt.

Israel also agreed at Aqaba not to advance any further moves on settlement expansion. But later in the day, after the murder in the Palestinian West Bank village of Huwara of two Israeli brothers, Israeli authorities reversed that decision. Israel committed instead not to announce any new measures in the four coming months. In other words, the government intends to go forward with the legalization of nine West Bank outposts and advance the construction of some 10,000 housing units in existing settlements.