HAMAS FATAH REACH DEAL

Report: Hamas, Fatah reach deal on prisoners documentBy JPOST.COM STAFF

After a planned meeting between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday was postponed, Palestinian sources reported Saturday that Fatah and Hamas had reached an agreement on the prisoners document.

According to the Palestinian report, Hamas agreed to most of the stipulations in the document, including a demand to limit their terror attacks to territories outside the Green Line.
Hamas also agreed that Abbas and the PLO would be responsible for all negotiations with Israel, with the understanding that any diplomatic proposals would be presented to the Palestinian people as a referendum, in which all Palestinians, including those living outside the PA, would vote.

Abbas and Haniyeh were expected to hold a joint press conference in Gaza Saturday evening.
"The atmosphere is good, the situation is calm, there are no clashes and no problems," said Hamas spokesman Razi Hamad Friday.

Hamad told Army Radio that the Palestinians were prepared to declare a ceasefire with Israel. "We are ready to stop firing on Sderot and to persuade all the Palestinian factions to do so, if the other side [Israel] will also declare a ceasefire," he said.

"If you want quiet in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank will all announce a ceasefire but you have to give us an opportunity to talk too all the (Palestinian) factions," Hamad continued.
The Islamic Jihad movement, however, declared that it had no intention of joining the Hamas-Fatah agreement, saying they did not want to "set any limits" to their fight against Israel.