Hamas, Fatah reach a deal to resume national unity government
(VOVworld) – Hamas and Fatah have reached a comprehensive agreement to let the Palestinian national unity government take full control of Gaza, said Fatah negotiator Jibril Rajoub in Cairo on Thursday.
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Chief Palestinian Fatah negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad (seated C-L) and Hamas’s senior official Mousa Abu Marzouk (2nd-R) with members of their delegations at a hotel in Cairo following reconciliation talks in Cairo on September 24, 2014. (Photo: AFP)
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The report was confirmed by senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk and Fatah’s top negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad. Palestinian talks took place following an Israel-Palestine agreement to hold talks on a long-term cease-fire in Gaza in October. The two Palestinian factions formed a national unity government in June, but Hamas was rebuked by President Mahmoud Abbas for not ceding the new government full authority in the Gaza strip.