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Under the plan announced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israel is pledging to remove some West Bank roadblocks, to allow Palestinians to move more freely and to support economic projects in Palestinian towns. It's also promising to give Palestinians more security responsibility in Jenin .
In return, the Palestinians are promising to improve policing of the town "to provide law and order, and work to prevent terror." Jenin is known as a stronghold of Palestinian militants and has been a frequent site of clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen.
Israel's defense minister and the Palestinian prime minister, who met with Rice, say they will pursue the measures with "special, immediate emphasis and work." Rice says she expects these things to happen "very, very soon" and that the U.S. will "be monitoring and verifying."