Gaza / Muhammad Majid / Anatolia
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas invited the general secretaries of the Palestinian factions to attend a meeting in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on July 30.
This came in statements made by Azzam Al-Ahmad, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on Sunday evening, to the state-run “Palestine” TV.
Al-Ahmad said: “President Mahmoud Abbas invited all the secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions to attend the meeting to be held in Cairo on July 30.”
He added that the invitations made by President Abbas “were made after consultation with the brothers in Egypt.”
Al-Ahmad pointed out that “invitations were delivered to all factions this evening (Sunday), without exception.”
While there was no immediate comment from the “Hamas” movement regarding receiving an invitation to attend the planned meeting, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Islamic Jihad Movement, the Palestinian National Initiative Movement, and the Palestinian People’s Party (Socialist) announced, in separate statements, that they had received Attendance invitations.
“The movement has received an invitation to participate in the meeting of the general secretaries, which will be held in Cairo on July 30,” the deputy secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad movement, Muhammad al-Hindi, said in a statement.
He added, “The movement will participate in the meeting of the general secretaries to discuss the Palestinian internal relations with all responsibility, and we will participate in the meeting with the aim of building national unity on the basis of adhering to national constants and protecting the option of resistance.”
Al-Hindi pointed out that the meeting of the secretaries-general comes in light of “the enemy’s intensification of its measures to confiscate land, build settlements, and Judaize Jerusalem.”
On July 3, Abbas invited the secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the risks, following an Israeli military operation that lasted about 48 hours in the city of Jenin and its camp in the northern occupied West Bank, in which helicopters, drones and ground forces were used under the pretext of pursuing gunmen.
“It was decided to call the general secretaries of the Palestinian factions for an emergency meeting to agree on a comprehensive national vision and unite the ranks to confront the Israeli aggression,” without specifying the date and place of the meeting, the spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said in a statement.
And last Wednesday, the Israeli army announced its withdrawal from the city of Jenin, concluding its largest military operation in the city in more than 20 years, killing 12 Palestinians and wounding about 120 others.
Later on the same day, Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Ziyad Abu Amr announced, in a statement, Egypt’s agreement to host a meeting of the general secretaries of the Palestinian factions.
Abu Amr said: “The date of the meeting, which aims to agree on a comprehensive national vision and unite the Palestinian ranks, has not been set.”
A political division has prevailed in the Palestinian Authority (the West Bank and Gaza Strip) since June 2007, due to sharp differences between the “Fatah” and “Hamas” movements, while regional and international mediation failed to end it.
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