Abbas has ‘closed’ reconciliation file, claims Fatah source

A source within Fatah has claimed that the leader of the movement and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas has closed the reconciliation file, Al-Resalah reported on Sunday. “The news reports that a new Fatah delegation is going to Gaza are false and there are no new developments in this regard,” said the anonymous Executive Committee member.

He made his comments following a report in the local media that Abbas is reorganising Fatah’s delegation to Gaza in order to talk with Hamas. “The delegation is to discuss for the second time the end of the internal division, forming a unity government and ending the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” it was claimed.

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However, it is now said that Abbas has told the Fatah official in charge of contacts with Hamas, Azzam Al-Ahmad, to freeze contacts with the Islamic Resistance Movement until further notice or until Hamas responds to the president’s order to cancel the administrative committee in Gaza.

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Abbas is currently bracing himself for a meeting with US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this month. Trump is then expected to announce his plan for solving the Israel-Palestine.