[Maan] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, will allow twenty Fatah members who fled Gazoo during fighting in 2007 to return to the coastal enclave, a Fatah official said Sunday.Gee...thanks.
Jamal Ubeid, a member of Fatah's high committee in Gazoo, told Ma'an that the party had been officially informed about the decision by Hamas, although a list of names has not yet been received.
Hmmmmmmmmm? Mahmoud, who's pissed us off lately?
Earlier Sunday, Gazoo's interior ministry front man Islam Shahwan told Ma'an that Fatah members who had fled to Egypt would be allowed to return to the Gazoo Strip.
"Fatah supporters will return to Gazoo on Monday via the Rafah crossing after they complete legal procedures, and nobody will harass them at any rate," Shahwan said.
No, we won't shoot them and drag them behind cycles of violence or throw them off of tall buildings or stuff like that. We swear by Allah...
Around 400 Fatah members fled the Gazoo Strip during 2007 fighting with Hamas and 56 party affiliates are in Gazoo's jails for political reasons, a Fatah official said this week.
"To the last drop of
The latest move by Hamas comes as both factions recently pledged to grant amnesties to rival supporters linked to fighting in 2007.
PLO official Nabil Shaath told Ma'an last week that dozens of Hamas prisoners held for political reasons will be released as a goodwill gesture to boost reconciliation efforts.
They'll now be known as "replacements".
Hamas had earlier indicated that they would free prisoners affiliated to Fatah, giving further momentum to reconciliation efforts since Israel's war on the coastal enclave.
Not to mention their little "tiff" a few years back...
The parties fought bitterly after Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006, splitting into separate governments in Gazoo and the West Bank a year later.