Leader of Palestinian Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, announced on Thursday that the resistance group and its rival Fatah have reached a deal over political reconciliation. “Fatah and Hamas reached an agreement at dawn today upon a generous Egyptian sponsorship,” Haniyeh said in a statement. Reuters news agency quoted a Hamas ...
The Palestinian National Consensus Government convened for the first time in three years in Gaza City on Tuesday, a day after Palestinian Authority (PA) officials arrived to begin Egyptian-mediated reconciliation efforts with Hamas, the besieged coastal enclave’s de facto ruling party. Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told the cabinet at ...