Senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad (C-R) and Hamas representative Saleh al-Arouri (C-L) sign reconciliation deal in Cairo, Oct. 12, 2017. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)
The draft of a truce between Israel and Hamas has triggered deteriorating ties between Egypt and the PA.
By: World Israel News Staff
The relationship between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Egypt is “very tense” in light of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ rejection of a possible truce between Hamas and Israel that Egypt has been mediating.
Israel and Hamas are reportedly on the brink of signing a year-long ceasefire.
An Egyptian security source said he expects the agreement will be announced next week after the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
The Arabic language daily al-Hayat reported Sunday that the majority of Palestinian factions in Cairo have agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, while Fatah has so far rejected it.
The Palestinian Central Council (PCC), at the end of its meetings in Ramallah on Friday night, said that a truce with Israel is “a national responsibility of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and not an action for the factions [from Gaza].”
The PCC asserted that there will be no separate state in the Gaza Strip or a Palestinian state without the Gaza Strip.
Fatah has not yet joined the factions’ delegations in Cairo. A senior Fatah source told al-Hayat that a delegation would travel to Cairo after the meeting with Egyptian intelligence officials has ended.
The Palestinian sources told al-Hayat that most of the Palestinian factions in Cairo have agreed to a possible truce, but not the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). “The priority must be for reconciliation [between the Palestinians] before the truce,” the PFLP reportedly told Egyptian intelligence officials.
Israeli radio quoted a senior Palestinian source in Ramallah as saying that Abbas will stop transferring funds to the Gaza Strip if Hamas signs a truce agreement.
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