Abbas secretly meets Palestinian factions' leaders: sources

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Abbas secretly meets Palestinian factions' leaders: sources

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Former Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) held recently close-door talks in Gaza city with representatives of different Palestinians factions, Palestinian sources revealed on Monday.

Abbas, who is also Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee, had convened during the past few days with leaders of the Palestinian factions, the sources said.

They said that Abbas met with representatives of the hard-line Islamic Jihad (Holy War) and Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) as well as representatives of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The Ramallah-based Al-Ayyam daily said that the talks focused on the current situation in light of the Israeli military escalations against Palestinians, particularly in Rafah and Nablus.

The daily said that the conveners evaluated the on-ground situation inside the territories, as well as the future steps to be taken in order to find a way out of the current crisis.

These meetings are the first important political activities carried out by Abbas since his resignation for the post of Prime Minister on September 2003, the daily added.

According to the sources, Abbas' last meeting with Islamic Jihad and Hamas movements' representatives was held last September, where the meeting coincided with a suicide attack carried out inside Israel, where he resigned few hours later.

Abbas presented his formal resignation last September in the aftermath of the collapse of the Hudna (Truce) between Palestinians and Israel while being accused by many Palestinians of executing the US and Israeli dictations.

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