A senior Hamas leader on Tuesday said a delegation from his movement is leaving to meet Egyptian officials in Cairo Tuesday without holding any reservations.
"There are no provisos in what Hamas carries to Cairo; we are going to see what the Egyptians will propose," said Mahmoud Zahar,former Hamas foreign minister in Gaza.
Hamas delegation will be the last of 12 factions that met Egyptian mediators to discuss ways of launching an inter-Palestinian dialogue to end feud between the biggest factions Islamic Hamas movement and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
"We don't have specific answers in advance and we will put forward what we have there in Cairo, not before the media," Zahar added ahead of leaving the Gaza Strip.
Last year, Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces, ousted Fatah and seized full control of the Gaza Strip. Abbas responded by consolidating his power in the West Bank and firing a Hamas-led coalition government. But Hamas rejected Abbas decisions and tightened its grip on Gaza, boosting political separation with theWest Bank.
On Monday, a Hamas official said that his movement has several reservations on the Egyptians proposals that set up for the dialogue. The reservations were related to the reform of the Palestinian security services in Gaza, forming a caretaker government and holding early elections.
Meanwhile, Zahar denied reports that Hamas has asked a former pro-Fatah security chief to oversee the reform of the security services that Hamas controls in the Gaza Strip and the pro-Abbas forces in the West Bank.
According to the reports, Hamas wanted the West Bank-based Gabriel al-Rojoub to oversee this security missions due to the historical hatred between al-Roojoub and Mohammed Dahlan, the former chief of security services in the Gaza Strip. Hamas accusesDahlan of being behind a plot to topple Hamas after the Islamic movement won elections in 2006.
Source: Xinhua
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