A number of Palestinian politicians have begun preliminary contacts to form a new Palestinian party, revealed a Palestinian former minister and member of Fatah movement Nabil Amr on Saturday.

Amr, a member of Fatah's revolutionary council, said that the idea of the new party came in an effort to overcome the conventional polarization between Fatah and Hamas.

His remarks appeared in a column published on a local daily.

"Some of the politicians affiliated with particular factions and some others political, social and economical activists. Together, they will form a new political frame in favor of larger polarization with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as its ceiling," added the official.

"The key objective of the initiative is to correct the performance of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the PLO," he said, taking in consideration the state of exhausting which the Palestinian political class suffers from.

There are 12 Palestinian factions and parties, but the most effective ones are the Fatah Movement, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) and the two Democratic and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) .

"That initiative doesn't clash with the existing formations," said Amr. Talking about the new party, he added that the Palestinian prospective has enough of internal fighting.

However, Amr didn't reveal if the new movement would have an armed wing, but said that those who set out to such new frame will not give up their roots nor stop fighting within their factions for the new and the development.

"The founding members of the party would not secede from their mother factions," according to Amr.

Source: Xinhua