An Egyptian initiative, consists of 14articles, will be presented to the Palestinian factions' leaders who are scheduled to convene in Cairo on early November, an Arab daily said Monday.
The Saudi Arabia Okath newspaper published the 14-article Egyptian plan, saying that the plan will be presented before the leaders of 12 Palestinian factions, including rival Fatah and Hamas, next month.
The Daily said the initiative aims at ending the current inter-Palestinian crisis, which was a result of Hamas armed takeover of the Gaza Strip last summer, and achieve a national reconciliation.
Since September, Egypt has been holding a series of bilateral talks separately with the leaders of each faction to shape up a working draft paper that would be a key for a general Palestinian agreement.
Hamas delegation would be the last faction that will hold bilateral talks with senior Egyptian officials in Cairo in the coming days to present their views concerning the solution of the current Palestinian crisis.
The Saudi newspaper, which said itself got a draft of the Egyptian initiative, said Hamas movement rejected three articles and accepted the other 11, adding that the initiative was based on Mecca agreement and the Yemeni initiative of reconciliation.
In February 2007, rival Fatah and Hamas agreed in Mecca in Saudi Arabia to end their armed fighting and form a national unity government. However, President Abbas deposed the government following Hamas Gaza takeover.
Yemen then presented an initiative of reconciliation among the Palestinians. The initiative, which was approved by the Arab Summit, calls for ending Gaza takeover and go for early presidential and legislative elections.
"The three articles in the Egyptian initiative, which were rejected by Hamas, are related to deploying Arab security forces in the Gaza Strip and accepting interim agreements reached with Israel," said the daily.
The daily said the 11 articles that Hamas will agree related to ending incitement, releasing political prisoners and letting those who left Gaza following the takeover to return back.
The initiative also called for lifting sanctions imposed on Fatah and Hamas charities, rebuilding Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) within four months and keeping the police forces acting under the observation of an Arab committee.
Forming a transitional unity government or early presidential and legislative elections before March next year based on respecting the PLO political platform (recognizing Israel and the signed agreements) have also been included in the articles.
Rabah Muhana, a senior Popular Front to Liberate Palestine (PFLP) leader analyzed in an article published in Gaza on Monday what both rival Fatah and Hamas movements want to form a government.
"Some people want to form a technocrat government that responds to requirements of the international Quartet in order to end the embargo and the blockade imposed on the Palestinian territories," said Muhana.
He added that "Some others, including the Popular Front, want to form a national accordance government that doesn't accept the Quartet's requirements, but end the current political Palestinian split and achieve a national unity."
Muhana agreed with Hamas on rejecting the principle of deploying Arab security forces in the Gaza Strip, adding that "Instead, we accept having qualified Arab security officers to help in rebuilding the security apparatuses."
He expected that President Mahmoud Abbas, his Fatah movement and other factions loyal to him "would accept the Egyptian paper, which is totally supported by the Arab leaders."
However, Muhana expected that Hamas movement would be put under a heavy pressure "in order to accept the Egyptian paper as a whole," wondering "would Hamas respond to the pressure and accept the paper?"
"In case Hamas doesn't accept the Egyptian paper, it will be held responsible for the failure of the dialogue, its interests would be threatened, Gaza crossings would be reopened and Israel might carry out a military strike against it," said Muhana.
Source: Xinhua
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