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A hoped-for reconciliation agreement between the Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah has been postponed again, Egypt said Saturday. Cairo said the delay in signing an agreement was due to "inappropriate conditions," the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
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Both Egyptian and Palestinian sources said that the delay was purely technical and did not mean Egyptian had abandoned the effort to reconcile Hamas and Fatah. The decision to delay the truce deal was made following a request from Hamas and Palestinian...
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Those efforts appear to have failed, and now he and the country will have to restrategize to deal with a report that will be discussed in New York, and which will pick up more credibility by simply making it to New York. If the Human Rights Council sends...
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Egyptian officials offered a fresh proposal for the signing of a Palestinian reconciliation pact to the visiting Islamic Resistance movement (Hamas) delegates. "Egypt handed Hamas delegation the new proposal that overcomes the dispute over the scheduled...
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The sharp crisis that erupted over the Palestinian Authority's handling of the report by Justice Richard Goldstone is now threatening to torpedo Egypt's efforts to sign a reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah. Earlier this week, the Egyptians...
Tags: PA Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas and Fatah, Silvio Berlusconi, Rome, president mahmoud, palestinian president, prime minister, Palestinian Authority, minister silvio, goldstone report
Hamas and Fatah are set to sign a "reconciliation agreement" on October 22, ending their power struggle and paving the way for presidential and parliamentary elections, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said over the weekend. Husam Zaki, spokesman for...
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved a French request to allow Qatar to build a new hospital in the Gaza Strip, government officials said on Tuesday evening. French President Nicolas Sarkozy made the request when he met with Netanyahu at the...
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Fatah, headed by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas have been bitterly divided since Hamas took control of Gaza in May 2007. So far there have seven rounds of dialogue, with no breakthrough. The Egyptians have twice postponed the scheduled...
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Throngs of people descended on the UN Thursday to protest the Iranian president's anti-Israel diatribe at the General Assembly and to stand in opposition to human rights violations in Iran following the usurped June election. Waving signs that declared...
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The Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, freed some 50 prisoners of the rival Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, calling it a gesture for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Periodic prisoner releases are a key...
Tags: Hamas and Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas