HAMAS AND PLO TO HOLD IMMEDIATE DIALOGUE ON UNITY GOVERNMENT CHALLENGES

Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu-Zuhri: Palestinian unity government has a chance to survive "if it deals justly" with the Gaza residents. (Photo: MEMO) — Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu-Zuhri on a press conference: Palestinian unity government has a chance to survive “if it deals justly” with the Gaza residents. (Photo: MEMO)

Gaza, 13 Dhulqa’dah 1435/8 September 2014 (MINA) – Spokesman of Palestine’s resistance movement Hamas said Hamas and Palestinian Authority agreed to hold immediate dialogue on the latest disputes as sparked media lately.

“We agreed that Hamas and Fatah would hold a meeting soon to resume dialogue and discuss the remained items in reconciliation agreement,” said Sami Abu Zuhri in facebook page on Sunday (7/9).

Zuhri calls for Abbas to stop conducting dialogue through the media, a day after Abbas accused the group of running a “shadow government” in Gaza, according to Ma’an report quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).

He told reporters that “president Abbas’ remarks against Hamas and the resistance are unjustified and the sources of information and figures he relied on were incorrect and have nothing to do with the truth.”

The remarks, he added, reflect injustice toward “our people and the resistance who made this great victory.”

Abu Zuhri added that Hamas and Fatah agreed to have a meeting soon for further talks and to discuss implementation of the terms of the reconciliation agreement both movements have signed.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday accused Hamas of running a “shadow government” in the Gaza Strip and said that the unity government between Hamas and the PLO must assert its authority in the besieged coastal enclave.

Speaking to a group of Egyptian journalists and scholars in Cairo on the first day of a three-day visit, Abbas said that the Palestinian Authority “would not accept the situation in Gaza to continue as it is now and in this shape.”

“There are 27 undersecretaries of ministries who are running the Gaza Strip, and the national consensus government cannot do anything on the ground,” Abbas said, referring to the officials of the former Hamas government who continue to maintain power in Gaza despite an April agreement that led to a government of national reconciliation between PLO and Hamas.

Abbas also spoke about the war in Gaza, claiming that only 50 of the fighters killed during the war were affiliated to Hamas, while 861 were affiliated to Fatah. (T/R04/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)