UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said that the Middle East Quartet strongly supports Palestinian efforts to establishing their own state. According to Palestinian news agency WAFA, speaking in Ramallah in west bank on Saturday with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Mr. Moon stressed the need to take the steps aimed at improving the lives of Palestinians, and to enable them to live in better conditions, particularly in the besieged Gaza Strip. Before their formal talks, Fayyad had taken Ban to a vantage point above Ramallah to show him a large swathe of West Bank territory under exclusive Israeli control and off limits to Palestinian development.<br/><br/>Earlier Israeli warplanes targeted the inoperative Gaza airport in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and two smuggling tunnels on Strip-Egypt borders midnight and this morning. Israeli media Haaretz quoting medical sources reports that at least 12 Palestinians were injured, two of them seriously. Israel says that it is targeting the area in retaliation to the rocket attack from Gaza in which one migrant worker was killed on Thursday.<br/><br/>The Quartet for the Middle East after a meeting in Moscow yesterday urged Israel to stop building settlements and set a target for a final deal with the Palestinians within two years. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said after the meeting of the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, European Union and Russia that these negotiations should lead to a settlement that ends the occupation which began in 1967 and results in the emergence of an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its neighbours.<br/>