{"id":3569,"date":"2014-04-24T06:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:39:40","slug":"hamas-fatah-announce-reconciliation-agreement-israel-cancels-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/04\/24\/3569\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas, Fatah announce reconciliation agreement, Israel cancels meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/hamas-al-fath.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Palestinian factions have signed a deal that aims to end the longstanding schism between rivals Fatah and Hamas, according to which a new government will be formed within weeks with simultaneous presidential and parliamentary polls to follow later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I congratulate our people on the end of years of Palestinian division,&#8221; Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told a press conference at his home in Gaza City also attended by members of a Fatah-led delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was dispatched to Gaza by President Mahmoud Abbas.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Haniyeh said both sides had agreed on the terms of two previous agreements, signed between Fatah and Hamas in Cairo and Doha.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Under the deal, Haniyeh said, Abbas will immediately begin consultations for the formation of a national unity government with a view to unveiling it within five weeks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Six months after the formation of the government, presidential and parliamentary polls will be held simultaneously in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Haniyeh added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elections for the PLO&#8217;s national council, he said, would also be held at the same time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the terms of the deal, Abbas has the right to set the dates for the polls, as long as they&#8217;re held at least six months after the formation of the national unity government.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Haniyeh asserted that both Abbas and Khaled Meshaal, head of Hamas&#8217; political bureau, had given the deal their blessings.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scores of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza City on Wednesday to celebrate a deal between rival factions Hamas and Fatah ending years of division.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Waving the flags of Hamas and Fatah, revelers gathered in western Gaza City and called on the two factions to overcome pressures and achieve inter-Palestinian reconciliation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel cancelled a scheduled meeting with Palestinian negotiators on the background of a reconciliation deal between rival Fatah and Hamas groups.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Israel cancelled the negotiation meeting that was supposed to take place this evening,&#8221; Israeli government spokesman Ofir Gendelman was quoted by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth as saying.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was not immediately clear whether the Israeli decision includes negotiations with the Palestinian side as a whole.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister Ze&#8217;ev Elkin claimed that the deal between Hamas and Fatah aims to destroy Israel.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2011, Hamas and Fatah hammered out a reconciliation deal under Egyptian sponsorship. The following year, the two sides agreed to form a unity government \u2013 to be headed up by Abbas \u2013 to pave the way for parliamentary polls.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The terms of that agreement, however, were never implemented.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ties have remained strained between Hamas \u2013 which governs the Gaza Strip \u2013 and Fatah \u2013 which runs the Palestinian Authority \u2013 since 2007, when Hamas routed pro-Fatah forces and seized control of the entire strip.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Continued conflict between Hamas and Fatah obliged the former to set up its own government in Gaza, while Fatah did the same in Ramallah in the West Bank.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier this year, Haniyeh declared 2014 to be &#8220;the year of Palestinian reconciliation,&#8221; announcing that Fatah members who fled the Gaza Strip in 2007 were welcome to return, with the exception of those charged with wrongdoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>WHITE HOUSE &#8216;DISAPPOINTED&#8217;, QATAR CONGRULATES<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The United States said on Wednesday it was disappointed by a unity pact agreed between the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas&#8217;s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and said it could seriously complicate peace efforts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The timing was troubling and we were certainly disappointed in the announcement,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a regular news briefing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;This could seriously complicate our efforts. Not just our efforts but the efforts of the parties to extend their negotiations.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Atiyahon congratulated Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on a deal to end Palestinian divisions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The Qatari foreign minister has sent a cable of congratulations to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on the deal to end the [inter-Palestinian] schism,&#8221; Haniyeh&#8217;s spokesman Taher al-Nounou told Anadolu Agency in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>World Bulletin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian factions have signed a deal that aims to end the longstanding schism between rivals Fatah and Hamas, according to which a new government will be formed within weeks with simultaneous presidential and parliamentary polls to follow later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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