ALGIERS —
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas
leader Ismail Haniyeh met publicly for the first time in over five years, on
the sidelines of Algerian independence anniversary celebrations.
اضافة اعلان
Algeria’s state broadcaster reported late Tuesday
that representatives of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas also attended this
meeting, which it called “historic”.
The pair, who officially last met face-to-face in Doha
in October 2016, were brought together in a meeting with Algerian President
Abdelma-djid Tebboune, whose country marked the 60th anniversary of
inde-pendence from France.
Abbas’ secular Fatah party, which dominates the
Palestinian Authority that rules the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has been at
loggerheads with Hamas since elections in 2007, when the Islamists took control
of Gaza.
Tebboune and Abbas also signed a document to name a
street “Algeria” in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
As well as Abbas and Haniyeh,
Tebboune on Tuesday
hosted several foreign dignitaries, who watched a huge military parade to mark
inde-pendence in 1962 when Algeria broke free from 132 years of French
oc-cupation.
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