2023-07-29 19:39:01
Islamic Jihad announced in a statement that it was boycotting the meeting
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Al-Alamein in Egypt on Saturday to attend a meeting of Palestinian factions on Sunday.
Abbas “will meet his Egyptian counterpart, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi” and “chair the meeting” of Palestinian faction leaders, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. On Saturday morning, the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Egypt at the head of a delegation from his Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip.
Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90 Hamas Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh
Islamic Jihad announced in a statement that it was boycotting the meeting to protest against the detention of some of its members and those of other factions in Palestinian Authority prisons in the West Bank. The two main Palestinian formations, Fatah of Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, have been at odds since the 2006 elections won by Hamas.
The objective is to “agree on a national plan to deal with the extremist practices and the aggression” of Israel, to “end the division in order to form a unified Palestinian government and to hold presidential and legislative elections.
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