In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.

Passage: "Both Abu Mazen and Olmert are facing internal crises and they held this meeting just to say there is hope to resume the negotiations." And the radical Islamic Jihad group said in a statement that it was a waste of time that "is not helping the Palestinian interests."
facing