Middle East Monitor / October 12, 2022
Before the start of Palestinian national meetings in Algiers yesterday, Fatah rejected an Algerian proposal for the internal Palestinian reconciliation, Quds Press reported yesterday.
“While the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has accepted the Algerian proposal for the reconciliation with Fatah, the latter rejected the proposal and suggested two major changes,” an informed source told Quds Press.
The source added: “Fatah set a condition that Hamas must accept the International Quartet’s decisions and recognizing that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is the only representative of the Palestinian people.”
According to the source, Fatah wants Hamas to recognize the PLO without seeking to make any change to it.
For its part, Hamas told the Algerian mediator that “it completely rejects Fatah’s conditions,” stating that the Quartet, which was created in 2002 by the UN, US, UK and Russia, wanted Hamas to recognize the Israeli occupation of Palestine and give up legal resistance.”
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is hosting a comprehensive Palestinian dialogue for the Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas. Talks began yesterday and are due to resume today.
