A senior Palestinian official today said he saw no hope of a serious peace process with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Talking to Voice of Palestine Radio, Yasser Abed Rabbo said there will be no serious political process while Netanyahu's government pursues settlements. The Palestine Liberation Organisation said on Saturday that talks would not resume until Israel halted settlement building on land where the Palestinians aim to found a state. Netanyahu, who heads a cabinet dominated by pro-settler parties, including his own Likud, has said he will not extend the freeze which his government had enforced for 10 months. The Israeli moratorium on new settlement building in the West Bank expired last week. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Netanyahu met three times before the end of the moratorium. Meanwhile, the US and European Union have called on Israel to extend the settlement freeze.