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Mubarak said after a telephone conversation on Friday night with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that the Israelis were "exploiting" world attention on the war in Iraq to carry out attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The two men denounced what they called "acts of violence and aggression carried out by the Israeli forces against Palestinians in the occupied territories, exploiting the fact that the rest of the world is preoccupied by the war against Iraq", MENA said.
They agreed on "the necessity of immediate action to support Palestinian demands to set out a 'roadmap' for peace after the Palestinians' commitment to reforms".
More than 100 Palestinians, including 26 children, were killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in March, the Palestinian health ministry reported on Wednesday.
US President George W. Bush has repeatedly promised that he will shortly publish the so-called "roadmap" for peace drawn up by the US, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, which includes plans for the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005.
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