RAMALLAH, February 24, 2018 (WAFA) – An Egyptian security delegation is expected to arrive in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to follow up on the stalled reconciliation efforts between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, a senior Fatah official said on Saturday.
Azzam al-Ahmad, member of Fatah Central Committee in charge of the reconciliation talks with Hamas, which control’s Gaza, said in a telephone interview with the official Voice of Palestine radio that the Egyptians had informed him to the delegation’s visit to Gaza.
He said President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership are determined to go ahead with the reconciliation as agreed in Cairo in October “regardless of the slowness and obstacles placed by Hamas.”
Ahmad visited Cairo recently and held talks with the acting director of intelligence Abbas Kamel on how to push the reconciliation forward and overcome impediments facing it.
The reconciliation calls for full empowerment of Rami Hamdallah government in Gaza, a step the Palestinian government said on many occasions has been facing obstacles by Hamas.
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