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- Hamas: Six months to implement Egypt's reconciliation plan
Gaza- The implementation of an Egyptian plan for reconciliation between the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas and the rival Fatah movement would take at least six months, according to top leader Hamas Mahmoud al-Zahar on Saturday. 'On October 25, Egypt
- Palestinians killed in explosion in Gaza-Egypt tunnel
Gaza: Two Palestinians were killed in an explosion in a smuggling tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border, police said on Saturday. Police said that two others are still missing after the blast went off Friday when a gas canister blew up. Friday's deaths
- Fatah group mulls talks with Hamas
(Reuters)
Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction is considering a request to meet with Hamas officials for the first time in months, Fatah officials said Saturday.
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The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (the DOP), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a transitional period not exceeding five years of Palestinian interim self-government in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Under the DOP, Israel agreed to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A transfer of powers and responsibilities for the Gaza Strip and Jericho took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 4 May 1994 Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area and in additional areas of the West Bank pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement. The DOP provides that Israel will retain responsibility during the transitional period for external security and for internal security and public order of settlements and Israeli citizens. Permanent status is to be determined through direct negotiations, which resumed in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus. An intifadah broke out in September 2000; the resulting widespread violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel's military response, and instability in the Palestinian Authority are undermining progress toward a permanent settlement.
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AFP - Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Damascus on Saturday for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on efforts to reconcile the Palestinian president's Fatah party and the rival Islamist movement Hamas.
AFP - Palestinian officials are compiling a register of residents in a northern Lebanon refugee camp to crack down on Islamist militants and to prevent unrest, one of them said on Saturday.
AP - Police say two Arab-owned apartments were torched in the Israeli town of Acre amid clashes between Jews and Arabs.
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