Ma'an News Agency (Palestine) : "Hamas: Unity deal to be signed by 22 October"

Hamas: Unity deal to be signed by 22 October
Published yesterday (updated) 02/10/2009 21:40

Gaza – Ma'an – Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said on Friday that a national meeting including all Palestinian factions would be held on 19 October in Cairo where he expects every unresolved disunity issue to be finalized.

"The signing formula, which will be approved by all factions, is based on the Egyptian vision for all unresolved issue," he said.

Barhoum said every outstanding issue in the two-year Palestinian divide would be wrapped up by 22 October, and that factional representatives would begin arriving in Cairo on 18 October.

Meanwhile, Egyptian security sources said that a Hamas delegation headed by Khalil Al-Haya returned to Gaza through the Rafah crossing on Friday afternoon.

They told Ma'an that "the delegation carried out a two-week tour of Egypt and Syria during which they held meetings with Egyptian officials to discuss the suspended points in the Palestinian internal dialogue and [Gilad] Shalit's issue."

The group travelled with Mahmoud Az-Zahhar several days earlier to hand over the Islamic movement’s response to the Egyptian proposal and to urge its signing by the end of October, according to our sources.

The sources added that the Hamas delegation was headed by Al-Haya, and included Salah Al-Bardawil, Kahled Abu Sedu, Mahdi Abed Ar-Razeq, Riyadh Al-Labban, and Ibrahim Abu Rezeq.

Hamas has agreed to reconcile on issues over holding presidential, legislative and Palestinian National Council elections, the deputy secretary of Fatah's Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, announced on Thursday.

The information was communicated to Fatah by Egypt, Rajoub said, and added that the country would invite Fatah, Hamas, and the rest of the Palestinian factions to sign the reconciliation agreement in October.

Egyptian mediators have prepared a final draft of a unity proposal, ready to be signed during an all-factions meeting in Cairo. The final draft will be distributed to faction leaders next week.

The ever-important issue of political prisoners could derail any agreement, however.

Over the past two days Palestinian Authority force have detained eleven Hamas affiliates, the party said. The members were taken from the cities of Nablus, Hebron, Jenin, Ramallah and Tulkarem.



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