Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with an Israeli government delegation in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday evening, the second meeting between the two sides in a month. 

During the meeting with Israeli Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz and Minister of Regional Cooperation Issawi Frej, Abbas said that it is important to end the Israeli occupation and achieve just and comprehensive peace in the region, through the implementation of international resolutions, Palestine News Agency reported. 

Abbas called for the halting of Israeli settlement, an end to raids on Palestinian towns and villages, and for the demolition of homes and displacement of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem to stop. 

The two Israeli ministers explained to Abbas their support for the two-state solution and joint cooperation to build confidence between the two sides. 

"We have a common mission," Horowitz wrote later on Twitter. "To maintain the hope of a peace founded on the two-state solution." The tweet included a photo of him standing with Abbas. 

Meetings between Abbas and Israeli ministers and officials have been taking place over the past three months after the bilateral direct peace negotiations had been stalled since March 2014. 

The U.S.-sponsored talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians stopped in 2014 following disagreements on Israeli settlement and the recognition of establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 border. 

Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are claimed by the Palestinians, in the 1967 Middle East war and has controlled them ever since. 

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly last month, Abbas gave Israel one year to withdraw from occupied territory, failing which he would no longer recognize the Jewish state based on pre-1967 borders. 

(With input from AFP, Xinhua)