Fatah, Hamas meet in Cairo over Gaza administration

Source: Xinhua| 2017-10-10 20:41:06|Editor: liuxin

RAMALLAH, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian Fatah party said Tuesday that the meeting with the Islamic Hamas movement delegation in Cairo will start with the empowerment of the national unity government in Gaza.

The meeting to be held under the patronage of the Egyptian intelligence will start with "enabling the government to work in the Gaza Strip, how the government will run the ministries and how Hamas treats the ministers during their visit to Gaza," Azzam Al-Ahmad, head of the Palestinian Fatah party to the national reconciliation talks, told official Voice of Palestine in a statement.

The talks with Hamas will review all items of the reconciliation deal signed in Cairo in May 2011, and preparations for the factions meeting a month later, according to the statement.

The talks will also discuss the issues of elections, the judiciary, security and the Palestine Liberation Organization, he said, adding that the decision of war or peace as well as the mode of resistance is a national decision and not a factional one.

The issues of border crossings and public employees appointed by Hamas will also be on the agenda of the Cairo talks.

The meeting starting Tuesday in Cairo is the first of its kind since June 2016, when talks between the two rival factions took place in Doha but with no breakthrough.

Last week, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah led a top government delegation to Gaza to take over the administration of the enclave from Hamas as part of a serious move toward national reconciliation.

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