Palestinian Factions Hold Reconciliation Talks In Egypt

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (left) and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in 2006. Palestinian media said talks between the factions aimed to forge unity between Abbas’s Fatah faction, which predominantly rules in Palestinian-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip-based terrorist group. AHMAD KHATEIB/FLASH90.

Palestinian factions kicked off discussions in Egypt on Sunday regarding reconciliation efforts under the Chairmanship of Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas.

According to the P.A.’s Wafa, news agency, the one-day talks taking place in the Mediterranean coastal city of El-Alamein were to be focused on “the latest developments in the Palestinian arena, and ways to restore national unity and end the division in light of the great challenges facing the Palestinian cause aimed at liquidating the Palestinian national project.”