A cluster was defined as a settlement, watering point or grazing area where animals were expected to be found.
Mr. Abbas called for discussions on "borders, Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, water and security".
All the "final-status issues" — Jerusalem, borders, refugees, settlements, water and security — will have to be left for later.
"We need affordable water in the informal settlements; water in the informal settlements is 20 times more expensive … because of the cartels that supply water.
One could fill a library with all the books, research documents, and policy papers that have been written on the different elements that make up the two-state framework, such as borders, settlements, water, refugees, and Jerusalem.
"It is time to grapple with the core issues of the conflict: on borders and security, settlements, water and refugees, and on Jerusalem itself," she said, addressing each of these challenges in unusual detail.
Tied to this February deadline, he would also like the Palestinians to agree to a new "framework" for the final-status talks (on borders, settlements, water, Jerusalem and refugees) which, Mr Barak believes, could then be concluded by December 2000.
But some of his suggestions in Gaza took them sharply aback.The most alarming was that the agreement made last October at Wye, in Maryland, should be wrapped into the final-status negotiations on borders, Jerusalem, settlements, water and refugees, which are all now supposed to be concluded by May 2000.
The study area is covered with croplands, settlements, water bodies and bare lands which are related to the physiographic and geomorphic evolution of the land surface.
Classification of satellite data was done (Samanta et al. 2012) considering nine (9) land use/land cover categories, namely dense forest, low dense forest, shrub land, outcrop/cleared/burnt lands, mountain/upland grassland, settlement, inland water, river water and agriculture land (Fig. 2a).
