Zionist and Palestinian sources stated that Kerry suggested that the Israeli enemy releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and curbs the process of settlements construction as the US releases the Zionist spy Jonathan Pollard

Zionist and Palestinian sources stated that the US Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that the Israeli enemy releases hundreds of the Palestinian prisoners and curbs the process of settlements construction as the US releases the Zionist spy Jonathan Pollard.

Jonathan Pollard, who is jailed in the US, is likely to be released in two weeks.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had wrapped up a lightning visit to the Zionist entity Tuesday but was to return within 24 hours as speculation grew that a jailed U.S.-Zionist spy could be key to saving peace talks.

After flying in from Paris on Monday evening, Kerry met for two hours with the Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, before starting talks with Palestinian negotiators at his residence hotel in al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Early on Tuesday, he held a second two-hour meeting with Netanyahu, with sources close to the talks saying they discussed a deal to free spy Jonathan Pollard as a way of breaking the logjam in the negotiations, before Kerry was back on a plane heading to Brussels for a NATO meeting.

Kerry had been due to travel to Ramallah to meet Abbas late on Monday but the meeting was canceled.

U.S. peace efforts are on the brink of collapse after Israel refused to free a fourth and final group of 26 veteran Palestinian prisoners which would have completed an agreement that brought the sides back to the negotiating table last July.

The release of Arab Israelis jailed also has been bitterly opposed by many within Netanyahu's ruling right-wing coalition.

On Monday, the Palestinians gave Kerry a 24-hour deadline to come up with a solution to the prisoner row, warning that a failure to do so would see them turning to U.N. bodies to press their claims for statehood.

A Palestinian source said there had been no new developments from Kerry's meeting with chief negotiator Saeb Erakat on Monday.

The Ramallah leadership was to meet again on Tuesday to discuss the Zionist position on freeing the prisoners, senior official Jamil Shehada told Voice of Palestine radio.

Palestinian negotiators say they will only agree to extend the talks if the occupation authority frees another 1,000 prisoners, including political heavyweights, the sick, and women and children.

They have also demanded a freeze on all settlement construction, including in east Jerusalem.