GAZA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of Palestinians marched through Gaza city on Saturday noon to demand rival factions of Hamas and Fatah to make concessions to reach a national agreement.

    The demonstration was organized by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), which also called for an expansion of the Egyptian-brokered dialogue to involve all factions, not only the Hamas movement and President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.

    The protestors waved banners calling the Cairo-hosted talks "the dialogue of power-sharing between Hamas and Fatah," signaling an opposition for ignoring the rest of the factions from taking part in the dialogue session which started in February.

    "Over the past five months, the bilateral dialogue has proved a failure and reach a deadlock," Talal Abu Zarfia, a DFLP official told Xinhua, "the distance has to be shortened by returning to the comprehensive dialogue."

    The last dialogue session between Hamas and Fatah has failed to make any progress and they agreed to meet again on August 25. Egypt extended the period between the sessions to give the negotiators more time.

    The dialogue aims at ending the aftermaths of Hamas' violent takeover of the Gaza Strip more than two years ago and forming a unity government to overcome the political split between Gaza and the Fatah-ruled West Bank.

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