Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Sun 30 July 2023:
On Sunday, Palestinian factions gathered in Egypt to discuss efforts at reconciliation in the face of rising hostility between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank.
According to Egypt’s official MENA news agency, the summit, presided over by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, aims to reunite different Palestinian groups.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) announced in advance that it would boycott the meeting because some of its members had been politically detained by the Palestinian Authority led by Abbas, despite the two main rival movements, the ruling Fatah and the Gaza-controlling Hamas, attending the meeting in Egypt’s New Alamein City.
Egypt hosts meeting of Palestinian factions pic.twitter.com/1WYHPmSZhb
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The gathering brokered by Egypt came amid soaring violence in the West Bank. Earlier in July, the Israeli raids on the Jenin refugee camp killed at least 12 Palestinians and wounded more than 150.
The Palestinian embassy noted that the Palestinian president and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi are scheduled to meet on Monday.
Egypt, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, has long sponsored meetings between Palestinian factions and has mediated truces between armed Palestinian movements and Israel.
Egypt has frequently stated its support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 boundaries, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as part of the internationally recognized two-state solution.
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