AMMAN — On Sunday,
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas alongside other Palestinian factions started the
reconciliation talks in the
Egyptian city of Al-Alamin.
اضافة اعلان
Abbas arrived in the coastal city on Saturday, to meet the
general secretaries of other
Palestinian factions over the long-proposed unity
talks that he called for on July 3.
Heightened tensions
It is understood Hamas leader
Ismail Haniyah, which he already
met with last week in Ankara at a special meeting organized by the Turkish
president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will attend the meeting, which comes at a time
of heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
Two factions, Islamic Jihad and the
Palestine Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said they wouldn't attend the talks. Islamic
Jihad officials say the
Palestine Authority must first of all release their
members that are held by Palestinian security forces.
President Abbas is also set to meet Egyptian president
Abdel Fattah El Sisi where he is expected to discuss the outcome of the talks.
The rift in
Palestinian politics begun in 2007 when Hamas
took over the
Gaza Strip. Since then, many attempts at reconciliation were
made, especially by Egypt, but these proved to be fruitless.
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