Hamas and Fatah unveil Palestinian reconciliation deal

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class="story-body__mini-info-list-and-share"> <ul class="mini-info-list"> <li class="mini-info-list__item"> <div class="date date--v2" data-seconds="1398279554" data-datetime="23 April 2014">23 April 2014</div> </li> <li class="mini-info-list__item"><span class="mini-info-list__section-desc off-screen">From the section </span><a href="/web/20150718125328/http://www.bbc.com/news/world/middle_east" class="mini-info-list__section">Middle East</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="story-body__inner" property="articleBody"> <div class="media-placeholder lead-video-placeholder" id="74407791" data-media-type="video" data-media-meta="{"duration":"PT1M29S","available":true,"image":{"height":360,"width":640,"href":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/74405000\/jpg\/_74405518_74405517.jpg","altText":"Jeremy Bowen","copyrightHolder":"BBC","originCode":"mcs"},"mimeType":"application\/xml","href":"http:\/\/playlists.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-27135614A\/playlist.sxml","externalId":"p01xvfnf","caption":"The BBC\u0027s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen on the deal between Fatah and Hamas","allowOffSiteEmbedding":false,"live":false,"entityType":"Version","durationInSeconds":89}"></div><p class="story-body__introduction">Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have announced a reconciliation deal, saying they will try to form a unity government in the coming weeks.</p><p>Hamas and Fatah split violently in 2007. Previous reconciliation agreements have never been implemented. </p><p>The deal comes amid troubled peace talks between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel.</p><p>Following the announcement, Israel said it would not attend a negotiation session planned for Wednesday evening.</p><p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier said Mr Abbas would have to choose between peace with Israel and peace with Hamas. </p><div id="" class="bbccom_slot mpu-ad" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="bbccom_advert bbccom_display_none"> <script type="text/javascript"> /**/ if (window.bbcdotcom && bbcdotcom.slot) { bbcdotcom.slot('mpu', [1,2,3]); } /**/ </script> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> /**/ if (window.bbcdotcom && bbcdotcom.show) { bbcdotcom.show() } /**/ </script> </div><aside class="pullout"><div class="pullout-inner"> <h2 class="heading">Analysis</h2> <div class="byline"><p><span class="portrait"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150718125328im_/http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64215000/jpg/_64215408_rushdi.jpg" alt=""></span><span class="person">By <span class="name">Rushdi Abu Alouf</span><span class="bbc-role">BBC News, Gaza City</span></span></p></div> <p>It is not easy to find a Palestinian who is optimistic about the latest, announcement, long overdue, about a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.</p> <p>Dozens of similar meetings have been held at home and abroad over the years. Two agreements were signed - in Qatar and Cairo - but none of these saw the light of day and nothing changed on the ground. </p> <p>So what is new in this round?</p> <p>Observers and analysts say there are new developments in the region.</p> <p>Hamas has lost a strong ally in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the leadership has also lost a key base in Damascus.</p> <div id="" class="bbccom_slot mpu-ad" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="bbccom_advert bbccom_display_none"> <script type="text/javascript"> /**/ if (window.bbcdotcom && bbcdotcom.slot) { bbcdotcom.slot('mpu', [1,2,3]); } /**/ </script> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> /**/ if (window.bbcdotcom && bbcdotcom.show) { bbcdotcom.show() } /**/ </script> </div> <p>Fatah, meanwhile, is looking to strengthen its position as peace negotiations with Israel stall.</p> <p><a href="/web/20150718125328/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27143129" class="story-body__link">Media divided over Palestinian unity deal</a></p> </div></aside><p>"You can have one but not the other. I hope he chooses peace; so far he hasn't done so," he warned.</p><p>Israel - along with the US and the EU - views the Islamist Hamas group as a terrorist organisation.</p><h2 class="story-body__crosshead">'Not incompatible'</h2><p>Palestinian officials responded by saying reconciliation was an internal matter and uniting Palestinian people would reinforce peace.</p><p>In a statement, Mr Abbas said there was "no incompatibility between reconciliation and the talks" and that they were committed to peace on the basis of a two-state solution.</p><p>US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington was "disappointed" by the announcement and warned it could seriously complicate peace efforts.</p><p>"It's hard to see how Israel can be expected to negotiate with a government that does not believe in its right to exist," she added.</p><p>Mr Abbas sent a delegation from his Fatah party to Gaza for reconciliation talks earlier this week.</p><div class="media-placeholder narrative-video-placeholder" id="74410221" data-media-type="video" data-media-meta="{"duration":"PT23S","available":true,"image":{"height":360,"width":640,"href":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/74410000\/jpg\/_74410533_74410532.jpg","altText":"Israeli spokesman Mark Regev","copyrightHolder":"BBC","originCode":"mcs"},"mimeType":"application\/xml","href":"http:\/\/playlists.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-27138799A\/playlist.sxml","externalId":"p01xvvsj","caption":"Israeli spokesman Mark Regev: \u0022This is a move away from peace\u0022","allowOffSiteEmbedding":false,"live":false,"entityType":"Version","durationInSeconds":23}"></div><p>The factions said they planned to form an interim unity government - headed by Mr Abbas - within five weeks and hold parliamentary elections within six months.</p><p>"This is the good news we tell our people," Ismail Haniya, prime minister of the Hamas-led government in Gaza, told reporters. "The era of division is over."</p><p>Senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed said they had "agreed about everything we discussed, so we will forget what happened in the past".</p><p>The news brought thousands of Palestinians out on to the streets of Gaza City in celebration. </p><div class="media-placeholder narrative-video-placeholder" id="74406315" data-media-type="video" data-media-meta="{"duration":"PT1M29S","available":true,"image":{"height":360,"width":640,"href":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/74405000\/jpg\/_74405515_74405514.jpg","altText":"Mustafa Barghouti","copyrightHolder":"BBC","originCode":"mcs"},"mimeType":"application\/xml","href":"http:\/\/playlists.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-27135612A\/playlist.sxml","externalId":"p01xv86z","caption":"Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian Legislative Council: \u0022Now any agreement will be with all Palestinians\u0022","allowOffSiteEmbedding":false,"live":false,"entityType":"Version","durationInSeconds":89}"></div><p>Ordinary Palestinians have long hoped for an end to the split between their political leaders but previous reconciliation deals in Doha and Cairo were never implemented, says the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem.</p><p>The agreement will strengthen the position of Mr Abbas - whose Fatah movement dominates the Palestinian Authority, which controls parts of the West Bank - and should also make Hamas feel less isolated as it continues to face border restrictions imposed by Israel and Egypt, our correspondent adds.</p><p>Fatah has historically been the dominant faction in the Palestinian nationalist movement, but Hamas won parliamentary elections in January 2006.</p><figure class="media-landscape full-width has-caption"><div class="js-delayed-image-load" alt="Palestinians show support for the reconciliation deal, in Gaza City, on 23 April 2014" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150718125328oe_/http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/74401000/jpg/_74401619_74401618.jpg" data-width="624" data-height="351"></div> <figcaption class="media-caption"> <span class="media-caption__text"> The deal was welcomed with celebrations by Palestinians in Gaza City </span> </figcaption></figure><p>In early 2007, Fatah and Hamas agreed to form a coalition to end growing factional violence, but in June of that year Hamas seized Gaza by force and set up a rival government.</p><p>Shortly after Wednesday's reconciliation deal was announced, five people were injured in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza, Palestinian medics said. </p><p>Israel said it had targeted militants preparing to fire rockets. 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