Hamas politburo head Khalid Mashaal, his deputy Ismail Haniyeh, and Abbas met in Qatar on Thursday. Leaders of the Hamas movement announced that they had offered Abbas a “complete vision” to achieving reconciliation between Hamas and the ruling Fatah movement. Palestinian Authority reported that during the meeting Abbas stressed national reconciliation “and removing all causes of division by forming a national unity government and holding elections.” The two parties agreed that achieving reconciliation was the key to “saving the Palestinian national project and facing the Israeli government’s plans of destroying the two-state solution.”
