Nimer Hammad, political adviser to Abbas, said the visit is part of the "continued consultations between President Abbas and his counterpart President Mubarak in this sensitive stage mainly in light of the US package to Israel."

The US administration offered to deliver 20 F-35 warplanes in 2015 to Israel in exchange for halting settlement building in the West Bank for three months, as well as backing for Israel against hostile efforts to delegitimize Israel in international fora, including at the United Nations. The proposed US package is meant to persuade Israeli government hard-liners to renew the freeze so that the stalled Mideast peace talks could resume.

However, the proposal is based on freezing settlement for three months in the West Bank only, and do not include Jerusalem.

Israel considers Jerusalem as its "undivided" capital, and claims that construction in the eastern part of the city is a separate issue from the West Bank settlements building. The Palestinians insist building their future state with East Jerusalem as the capital.

Hammad said that the Palestinian and Egyptian leaderships were not a party to the US proposed deal.

He added that that Abbas-Mubarak meeting comes to coordinate steps once the two leaders receive the US proposal.

On Friday, Abbas criticized the proposed deal which meant to help renew peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians which stalled in late September, following Israel's refusal to extend a ten-month moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements.

"America is Israel's ally and we cannot prevent that. But attempts to renew negotiations should not be used as a pretext to provide Israel with more weapons," Abbas said in an interview with the Arabic language daily As-Sharq Al-Awsat.