Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Tuesday said there would be no Palestinian state without Jordan Valley and without East Jerusalem as its capital.

The Jordan Valley and East Jerusalem “are undivided parts of the Palestinian land that has been occupied since 1967,” Fayyad told reporters.

Fayyad was responding to his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that Israel will keep its troops on the eastern boundary of the West Bank, which borders Jordan, in any future agreement with the Palestinians.

Netanyahu, who visited the Jordan Valley on Tuesday, said that the deployment of the Israeli army on the eastern border of the Palestinian state would let Israel live in peace.

The Jordan Valley makes nearly 26 percent of the West Bank, and is considered an area of silent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians due to its significance for both sides.

Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians stopped in September, when Israel resumed building Jewish settlements in the West Bank.