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Hamas says no unity talks while Fatah holds prisoners
There will be no reconciliation talks with Fatah while Hamas activists remain in detention, a Hamas official was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah are expected to resume reconciliation talks in Cairo next month but Hamas. "We will not sit down [with Fatah] until they release [Hamas prisoners], and whoever does not want to release them does not want reconciliation," Salah al Bardawil told Egypt's Al Masry Al Yom newspaper. Bardawil headed a delegation of Hamas officials from Gaza that met over the weekend with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Sulaiman to bolster a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Both Hamas and Fatah have detained each other's members since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007. Posted by: Fred 2009-01-28 |
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