Hamas announces initiative to regain national unity with Fatah

06.03.2011                      30.Adar l, 5771

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Hamas announces initiative to regain national unity with Fatah

Although Hamas and Fatah have historically been at odds, the Islamist party's leadership believe that a united front is needed to keep the unrest that has swept the region at bay.

Hamas representatives said Saturday that the Islamist party is preparing a comprehensive initiative to end more than three years of internal Palestinian division.
The militant Islamist movement, which won parliamentary elections in January 2006, seized control of the Gaza Strip in June the following year in the aftermath of clashes between Hamas and Fatah, the secular Palestinian party led by President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas is based in the West Bank….