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Erdogan: New Hamas program ‘significant step’ toward healing rift with Fatah
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Hamas’s new softened policy document on Israel is a “significant step” toward a potential reconciliation between the Palestinian terrorist organization and its West Bank rival Fatah.
“The document went beyond the ordinary. I hope Palestine’s fight for rights and freedoms will get stronger from now on,” he says according to reports in Turkish media.
The document unveiled last week accepts the idea of a Palestinian state in territories captured by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967 but dismisses the establishment of the State of Israel as “illegal,” asserting a Palestinian claim to the entire land of Israel, and a so-called right of return for all descendants of refugees.
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