Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet next week with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Wednesday, April 4, AFP reported.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu will meet with Palestinian prime minister Fayyad next week," the Israeli premier's spokesman Ofir Gendelman said in a statement posted on his official Twitter feed.

Palestinian officials confirmed the meeting and said Fayyad would hand Netanyahu a letter from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas about the stalled peace process.