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GAZA - Hamas says it will hold reconciliation talks with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hints it may be ready to give up control of the Gaza Strip, which it seized in June.
"There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals," said Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas prime minister in the former government that Abbas declared void.
"Our Administration in Gaza is temporary," Haniyeh said in a bulletin on a pro-Hamas website yesterday.
Abbas, who is pursuing a peace deal with Israel, has ruled out re-engagement with Hamas unless the Islamist group submits to his authority and ends its control of Gaza.
- Reuters
