Summary
The Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire and security plan proposed by CIA Director George Tenet which, in its Avalon description, took effect on 13 June 2001, reaffirming the GOI and PA security organizations’ commitment to the security agreements forged at Sharm el-Sheikh in October 2000, embedded in the Mitchell Report of April 2001, on the premise of a mutual, comprehensive cease-fire applying to all violent activities (The Tenet Plan: Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire and Security Plan, lines 25-31).
Details
- Its six items provide for immediate resumption of security cooperation through a weekly senior-level committee and reinvigorated District Coordination Offices; cease-fire enforcement, including no Israeli attacks on PA Ra’is facilities or prisons, PA arrest and incarceration of terrorists, Israeli release of sweep detainees with no terrorist association, and restored military police investigations; exchange of terrorist-threat information with PA preemptive operations and Israeli action against Israeli citizens’ violence against Palestinians; flash-point procedures, “no demonstration zones” and “buffer zones”, weapons confiscation and non-lethal IDF crowd measures; a schedule, to be forged within one week, for complete IDF redeployment to positions held before September 28, 2000; and a timeline, to be developed within one week, for lifting internal closures and reopening internal roads, the Allenby Bridge, Gaza Airport, the Port of Gaza and border crossings, with demonstrable action on redeployment and closures within the first 48 hours of each one-week period (lines 35-85).
- Its closing pledge is that even if untoward events occur, security cooperation will continue through the joint security committee (line 87).
- Resolution 1397 (2002) calls upon the Israeli and Palestinian sides and their leaders to cooperate in the implementation of the Tenet work plan and Mitchell Report recommendations with the aim of resuming negotiations on a political settlement (Resolution 1397 (2002) (12 March 2002), PDF p.1).
- The Quartet Roadmap resumes security cooperation based on the Tenet work plan in Phase I, bars GOI actions undermining trust including “other measures specified in the Tenet work plan”, and has restructured Palestinian security forces and IDF counterparts progressively resume security cooperation and other undertakings in implementation of the Tenet work plan, including regular senior-level meetings with U.S. security officials (A Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Quartet, transmitted 7 May 2003), PDF p.3-4).
Related pages
George Tenet, Central Intelligence Agency, Palestinian Authority, Israel Defense Forces, Closure system, Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, The Tenet Plan: Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire and Security Plan