GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — Hamas has urged the Fatah movement to respond positively to the efforts aimed at establishing a “Community Support Committee” to manage the Gaza Strip. In a statement, Hamas said it had recently received and considered “numerous national initiatives and proposals within the framework of efforts to ...
CAIRO (AA) – Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah held a meeting in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the formation of a joint committee to run the Gaza Strip after Israel’s ongoing war on the enclave, an Egyptian source said. “The two groups showed flexibility and positivity towards establishing a community support committee to manage the [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said representatives of the Fatah and Hamas groups will soon hold a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Mubasher channel Tuesday, Mustafa said the talks aim to reach agreements to improve conditions for serving the people of Gaza. ...
Sidon, Lebanon — AFP An Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon killed a Fatah official, a senior member of the Palestinian group and a security source said. It marked the first such reported attack on Fatah, the movement led by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, in more than 10 months of cross-border clashes […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US State Department announced Tuesday that it would review a China-mediated deal to heal the years-long rift between Palestinian factions and form a national unity government. It voiced opposition to a role for Hamas. “We have not reviewed the text of the so-called Beijing declaration, of course, we will do th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian factions have pledged to end divisions during their reconciliatory talks in Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has announced. The representatives inked the declaration “pledging to end division and strengthen unity.” Representatives from 14 groups of Palestinians have held talks in Beijing sin...
ANKARA (AA) – The death toll from renewed clashes between Palestinian armed groups in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon has reached 15 after a week of clashes, local media reported on Thursday. According to the National News Agency, the clashes which erupted last week between the Fatah movement and a rival Islamist [&hel...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between warring Palestinian groups in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon was reached a day after an armed conflict that left 20 people injured, a source close to the latest developments said late Friday. A source from the Palestinian Hamas group told Anadolu, on condition of [&helli...
Sidon, Lebanon – AFP Clashes broke out late Thursday in a restive Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon that was rocked by deadly fighting just weeks ago, an AFP correspondent said. The fighting in the Ain al-Helweh camp once again pitted members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement against Islamists, a source...
