Palestinian leftist parties have launched a campaign to urge Islamic Hamas movement and President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction to end their feud, Palestinian radio reported on Thursday.
Rabah Mhana, an official from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said the campaign is launched in cooperation with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) under the motto of "ending the state of splitting."
"We decided to resort to the Palestinian public and give the initiative for them to end the divisions," Mhana told Voice of Palestine radio. He added the campaign will work throughout January and February.
Power struggle between Hamas and Fatah started in January 2006 after the Islamic movement swept Fatah from power and scored landslide victory in preliminary elections.
The struggle became fierce in June 2007 and Hamas ended it unilaterally by fighting and routing pro-Abbas security forces and took over control in Gaza. Abbas then fired the Hamas-led coalition and formed another cabinet excluding Hamas members ruling from West Bank.
The campaign's first step is to call on Hamas to end its control of the Gaza Strip, Mhana said.
Hamas announced for several times that it would not do so before an unconditional dialogue with Fatah is held.
Source:Xinhua
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