RAMALLAH, July 21, 2018 (WAFA) – Fatah is going to submit its answers to the Egyptian ideas on reconciliation with Hamas in the coming days, Azzam al-Ahmad, member of Fatah Central Committee and its representative to the reconciliation talks, said on Saturday.
He told Voice of Palestine radio that he intends to travel to Egypt in a couple of days with answers to the Egyptian ideas for discussion and if they are accepted, then a meeting will be held between Fatah and Hamas.
Ahmad denied claims by Hamas leaders that a final paper on reconciliation has been concluded, saying that recent claims by Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk about the terms of the paper are “unfounded.”
“"What Hamas has leaked through its leader Moussa Abu Marzouk is unfounded,” he told the radio. “They were contradictory statements and the aim of their publication is to provoke the Palestinian public opinion and to kill the Egyptian proposals even before they are born.”
He said that “what Egypt has done was suggest a draft proposal for mechanisms to implement the previous reconciliation agreements and not a final paper.”
Ahmad accused Hamas of not complying with what the Egyptian mediators have asked both sides to do and that was not to make any statements on the reconciliation or the moves to end the division.
The Fatah official, who is also member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said that reconciliation and an end to the division that plagued Palestinian politics for more than a decade is the only guarantee to foil the American-Israeli sponsored ultimate deal drawn to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Palestinian leadership will foil the ultimate deal, also known as the deal of the century, but in order to do that there has to be reconciliation and end to division, he said.
Ahmad said that the Americans and Israelis are talking about improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which for them is an attempt to create new political facts on the ground that would lead to an end to the Palestinian cause.
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