By KUNA
Gaza : US President George W. Bush wraps up later Friday a three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
During his visit, Bush urged the Israelis and the Palestinians to work hard on concluding a peace agreement during the approximate one year left for him at the White House.
Bush also stressed that “there should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967.” Before leaving Israel to carry on with his tour in the region, Bush will visit Yad Vashem memorial on the Holocaust, Radio Israel said.
The US president will also travel north from Jerusalem to the Sea of Galilee to visit two holy sites, the Mount of the Beatitudes — where Jesus was said to have given his famous Sermon in which he summarised the law of God — and the ruins of Capernaum, the seaside village where Christ lived and taught after moving from nearby Nazareth, his home for the first 30 years of his life.
Also prior to his departure for Kuwait, the second leg of his tour, Bush will meet with the special envoy of the Middle East peace Quartet, Tony Blair.