Representatives of Hamas and Fatah will meet in Moscow tomorrow, Russian state media reports.
They will discuss the formation of a unified Palestinian government and the rebuilding of Gaza, RIA state news agency said, citing deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the Palestinian ambassador to Russia.
MEZIESBLOG cannot independently verify these reports.
A meeting between representatives of the two groups would be significant, them having long been at odds – at times bitterly – since a brief civil war in 2007.
Fatah is the dominant party in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the authority which governs the West Bank.
Hamas fought a civil war with Fatah in 2007 to take control of Gaza after winning parliamentary elections the previous year – a takeover that President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, called a coup.
In the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October, the president said the PLO was the only legitimate representative of Palestinians.
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