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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Abbas accuses Hamas of lacking will to achieve reconciliation
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accuses Hamas of lacking intentions to achieve intra-Palestinian reconciliation.
“Hamas principally does not have intentions to achieve reconciliation,” Abbas says at a meeting of the Palestinian Central Council, the PLO’s second highest decision-making body, in Ramallah.
Abbas also says that Ramallah-based Palestinian leadership wants “one government, one law and one legitimate weapon without militias” in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Hamas has controlled Gaza since ousting the Fatah-dominated and West Bank-based PA in 2007 from the territory.
Hamas’s armed wing and other groups in the Gaza Strip possess thousands of weapons.
— Adam Rasgon
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