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Fatah denies talks with Hamas (Extra)
Aug 7, 2007, 11:39 GMT
Ramallah - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party denied Tuesday that it was holding secret talks with the rival Hamas movement in control of Gaza.
'The only way that dialogue can resume is if Hamas restores the the situation to the way it was before the bloody coup and apologizes to the Palestinian people for its acts,' Fatah spokesman Ahmed Abdul Rahman Fatah told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
He was referring to Hamas' violent take-over of the Gaza Strip from Abbas' security forces in mid-June.
A senior Hamas official, Ahmed Yousef, had earlier said the two groups had resumed contacts and that Russia was playing a role in the mediation after separate visits to Moscow by Abbas and Hamas leaders.
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Mike PikeAug 11th, 2007 - 09:54:21
These are how they hold secret talks I suppose...............
While fighting in a Mosque?????????????????
Peacefully Fierce clashes erupted Thursday morning between the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad movement and the Hamas Executive Force left two Palestinians dead and several more wounded , medical officials and witnesses said.
The gunfight broke out near a mosque, Oh heaven forbid they fight on holy ground> in the Zeitoon neighborhood in southern Gaza City, when Hamas militants stormed the structure < could you just imagine if the Israelis did this, it would have been the sin of sins, NO???> and clashed with Islamic Jihad gunmen.
The people wounded were praying and studying at the time the fighting erupted.
What a bunch of true BS.
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