{"id":6753,"date":"2016-10-30T05:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2016-10-30T05:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:06:32","slug":"palestinian-chief-abbas-holds-rare-meeting-with-hamas-leaders-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2016\/10\/30\/6753\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian chief Abbas holds rare meeting with Hamas leaders in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with Hamas leaders Khalid Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on Thursday.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe trio emphasised reconciliation and the importance of dialogue between Fatah and Hamas to achieve unity, establish a consensus government and organise elections, PA official news agency, Wafa, reported.<br \/>\nThe meeting took place at a business lunch hosted by Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammad al-Attiyah<br \/>\nThe news agency added that the sides agreed to protect the \u201cPalestinian national project\u201d from Israeli attempts to destroy the two-state solution.<br \/>\n\u201cThey reaffirmed that there is no Palestinian state in Gaza, and no Palestinian state without Gaza,\u201d according to Wafa\u2019s account.<br \/>\nGaza has been controlled by Hamas since 2006, after the group won the Palestinian legislative elections.<br \/>\nRelations between Fatah and Hamas soured after clashes and failure to form a unity government in the aftermath of the elections.<br \/>\nRepeated attempts at reconciliation, led by Cairo, Doha and Ankara have failed.<br \/>\nThe rare meeting between the leaders of the rival factions comes at a time when peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are at a standstill.<br \/>\nAbbas was at the receiving end of much criticism last month for attending the funeral of former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres.<br \/>\nA Hamas spokesperson said a letter of condolence sent by Abbas to Peres&#8217;s family \u201cshows contempt for the blood of martyrs and the suffering of the Palestinian people\u201d.<br \/>\nAbbas also faces internal opposition within Fatah from followers of Mohammed Dahlan, a former security chief who is now in self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><strong>middleeasteye<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with Hamas leaders Khalid Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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