ROME (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd November, 2018) There is a chance for the reconciliation between the Palestinian Fatah group and the rival Hamas movement in the light of Egypt's involvement in the peace process, Riyad Maliki, the foreign minister of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian National Authority, told Sputnik.
"I think that there is an opportunity [for the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation] these days, especially since the Arab Republic of Egypt, as a country carrying this file in the Arab world, is following this issue," Maliki said on the sidelines of the Mediterranean Dialogues (MED) forum in Rome.
Maliki noted the Egyptian authorities had invited a Hamas delegation to visit Cairo for talks with Egyptian intelligence officials on ways to end the movement's conflict with Fatah and to return the Palestinian national unity government to the Gaza Strip.
"We are waiting for any information about those talks that started in Cairo ... and we hope that the Arab Republic of Egypt can convince the Hamas leadership that ending the division must be in the Palestinian interest ... If successful, it will be a milestone and a major turning point in terms of uniting the Palestinian home and confronting existing threats that come from either the United States, Israel or elsewhere," Maliki pointed out.
