Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei held an emergency meeting with leaders of the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on a day Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian. Quraya has been holding talks with members of the Higher Follow-up Committee for Intifada (HFCI), Aljazeera's correspondent in Gaza reports. Sunday's meeting was the second in less than 24 hours. AFP reports that the talks in Gaza City were part of efforts to reach an agreement for a halt to anti-Israeli attacks.Political representatives of groups such as Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) took part in the meeting of the HFCI with Quraya. However, the main Islamic radical movement Hamas was not present, with members saying that organisers had not been able to contact them in time.
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