Senior officials from rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas will meet tomorrow in Cairo to continue reconciliation talks, the Hamas terror group says.
Hamas deputies Saleh al-Arouri and Khalil al-Hayya will be part of the delegation, according to reports in Hamas-linked Palestinian media.
According to Ma’an, a news source rumored to be close to the Palestinian Authority security services, Fatah Secretary-General Jibril Rajoub will attend the talks as well.
The two major Palestinian movements have been at odds since 2007, when Hamas expelled Fatah from the Gaza Strip following a bloody struggle for supremacy in the coastal enclave.
Several attempts to bridge the differences between the two groups have been unsuccessful. A round of talks which began earlier this summer amid talk of Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank prompted positive rhetoric between the two sides, but little movement on the ground toward Palestinian national unity.
— Aaron Boxerman
Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, right, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, attends by video conference a meeting with deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri, July 2, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
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