The next meeting on intra-Palestinian settlement in the Egyptian capital of Cairo may take place within two weeks, Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, the deputy chief of the Political Bureau of the Islamist movement Hamas and the head of the movement's delegation to the ongoing talks in Moscow, said on Wednesday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th February, 2019) The next meeting on intra-Palestinian settlement in the Egyptian capital of Cairo may take place within two weeks, Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, the deputy chief of the Political Bureau of the Islamist movement Hamas and the head of the movement's delegation to the ongoing talks in Moscow, said on Wednesday.
The third intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow started on Monday and will conclude later on Wednesday.
"The exact date is not decided yet... I guess within two weeks [Egypt] is going to invite all of the Palestinian delegations to be in Cairo," Marzook told reporters.
In 2005, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) a governing body for both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank took control of both enclaves. But the unity within the Palestinian Authority did not last long and a conflict erupted between Fatah and Hamas in 2006, resulting in the split of the authority and Hamas taking over the Gaza Strip. The West Bank is still controlled by Fatah. In 2017, Fatah and Hamas signed an Egypt-brokered agreement to put Gaza back under the PNA's control, but the deal has not been implemented so far.
Russia is one of mediators in both the Israeli-conflict and the intra-Palestinian talks. US President Donald Trump's administration, meanwhile, has also been working on its peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian settlement for months. However, Palestinians have rejected Washington's involvement in the conflict settlement after Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the US embassy there in May 2018 despite UN recommendations to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in the city until its legal status is settled.
