Gaza City – At the request of Arab states to normalize relations with Israel, fractured Palestinian political factions are diligently participating in multilateral talks to fix unity and fix the Gaza Strip-West Bank department in more promising negotiations than previous efforts.
The chancellors of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain will on Tuesday signal an agreement with Israel to complete ties in violation of the Arab Peace Initiative. This resolution is a risk to long-standing Arab demands that Israel end. their decades-old profession and agree on a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
On Saturday, Palestinian teams led by Hamas and Fatah agreed on a “unified leadership on the ground” that includes all factions that will lead a “global popular resistance” opposed to the Israeli occupation, according to a statement.
He called for Tuesday, in the rite of signature in Washington, D. C. , to be a day of “popular rejection. “Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are making plans for “rabies day” demonstrations, and more open-air demonstrations are expected. embassies of Israel, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain worldwide.
The formation of the joint leadership organization and progress in the unity talks between Palestinians came after a long-awaited assembly on 3 September between palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhala and leaders. of the palestinos. entidades. Se held meetings in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and in Beirut, Lebanon.
Hamas and other Palestinian parties have demanded for years that this assembly be held, but Abbas has rejected this initiative, calling on Hamas to first respect past unity pacts.
But with the Palestinian cause facing so many demanding situations recently, with the utmost normalization between Arab countries and Israel, Abbas has agreed to hold talks.
Husam Badran, a member of the Hamas political bureau, told Al Jazeera that several points are prompting Palestinians to unite, adding U. S. President Donald Trump’s “century agreement,” Israel’s plans to annex Palestinian areas, and Arab states that normalize relations with the United States. “occupation” and what meant a treacherous stab wound to the Palestinians’ backs. “
Badran called the assembly of leaders a “big step forward” that resulted in transparent decisions on various urgent issues.
“The haste of several Arab countries to normalize their relations with the state of the profession has driven the factor in forming unified leadership on the floor for popular resistance in the most sensitive part of the Palestinian agenda of action,” Badran said.
He added that normalization movements “require Palestinians to cooperate and their internal front, and go beyond all their differences to bridge the Palestinian cause. “
“Palestinian leaders are turning their rejection of all plans to kill Palestinians into realistic measures on the ground,” Badran said.
Three committees were formed at the meeting: the first aimed at forming a unified cash leadership to ignite the popular struggle opposed to the Israeli occupation, the time to achieve a consensual vision to end the department between Gaza and the West Bank, and a third to revive the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The committees received five weeks to make recommendations to the Palestinian president, and Abbas promised that he would settle for any recommendation.
Hamas and Fatah have been divided since 2007, when Hamas deposed Fatah security forces in Gaza after months of tension. Since then, several attempts have been made to close the gap between the two, but neither has materialized.
Relations between Hamas and Fatah, however, have progressed significantly recently.
Over the past two months, the two main Palestinian movements, driven by Israeli annexation plans, have engaged in discussions aimed at presenting a unified rejection of Israeli-American plans.
“Palestinian unity efforts come at a time when the Palestinian cause is exposed to serious and strategic threats and challenges, beginning with the efforts of the US administration to impose facts on the floor to legitimize the Israeli occupation and Israeli plans to annex the West Bank,” Palestinian political analyst Husam al-Dajani told Al Jazeera.
“The most recent of these threats is the United Arab Emirates’ resolve to normalize relations with Israel without regard to Palestinian rights or the Palestinian cause. The U. S. Normalization Resolution has precipitated/accelerated intra-Palestinian talks and persuaded all parties to unite. “
Al-Dajani said the department will have to finish smart if the Palestinian cause wants to survive.
“There will have to be consistent paintings to repair the attention of the Palestinian national project. These paintings begin by finishing the department so that we can face all the threats and challenges,” al-Dajani said.
A senior Fatah official and spokesman, Iyad Nasser, told Al Jazeera: “The threats and risks faced by other Palestinians and the Palestinian cause are those that have led to this progress in forming committees and in forming the national leadership of popular resistance.
Nasser said his party was positive about efforts to fix the fences.
“At this stage, unity is necessary to address all projects and plans aimed at liquiding the Palestinian cause and Palestinian rights. At this critical moment, we will have to go beyond the disputes of the minor factions towards the general determination to protect and promote the issue, which is the consultation of Palestine,” Nasser added.
“To cope with normalization, we will have to drive the achievement of national unity and the escalation of popular resistance in the occupied Palestinian land. “
As successful reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah have been elusive for more than a decade, the other Palestinians face any new attempt with skepticism.
Al-Dajani noted: The explanation for progress between Hamas and Fatah is that the starting point of talks between the two movements this time to confront Israel and protect the Palestinian cause, as opposed to the sharing of power and the political ambitions of each.
“If this equation continues and the progress of the Palestinians remains the gateway to unity talks, then Palestinian unity will come naturally and come true.
The discussion between Hamas and Fatah over the past two months has focused on leaving aside disagreements and locating non-unusual terrain.
In addition to their unified rejection of Israeli and US measures opposed to the Palestinians, both movements agreed that nonviolent popular resistance was the preferred strategy.
Joint leadership, led by Hamas and Fatah, is expected to turn against popular resistance in the West Bank this week, has given no details.
Jibril Rajoub, general secretary of fatah’s Central Committee, which was Fatah’s initiative to restart talks with Hamas in June, told reporters that Palestinian factions had agreed that there would be a replacement in commitment regulations with Israeli occupying forces.
“We will allow the profession to start an olive tree or hurt a Palestinian without paying the price,” Rajoub said.
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