{"id":99954,"date":"2024-07-23T04:42:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/23\/fatah-and-hamas-pledge-to-strengthen-palestinian-unity-after-signing-beijing-declaration\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T04:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:42:06","slug":"fatah-and-hamas-pledge-to-strengthen-palestinian-unity-after-signing-beijing-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/23\/fatah-and-hamas-pledge-to-strengthen-palestinian-unity-after-signing-beijing-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatah and Hamas pledge to strengthen Palestinian unity after signing Beijing Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have signed a declaration aimed at ending division and strengthening unity.<\/p>\n

A total of 14 Palestinian factions are due to be represented at a meeting with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi.<\/p>\n

It comes after days of talks to discuss reconciliation efforts to end around 17 years of political splits.<\/p>\n

Tensions have been rising between Fatah and Hamas over the latter’s continued war with Israel.<\/p>\n

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the Fatah movement, has previously criticised the Islamist group for the war, while Hamas has accused the Palestinian president of taking Israel’s side.<\/p>\n

The two main Palestinian factions have been at odds since Hamas won legislative elections in 2006 and took over the Gaza Strip in 2007 after a brief civil war in which it routed the Western-backed Palestinian forces loyal to Abbas.<\/p>\n

Efforts since 2007 by Arab countries, led by Egypt, have so far failed to end power-sharing disputes between Hamas, which runs Gaza, and the Fatah movement of Abbas, which makes the backbone of the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n

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China’s relations with the Palestinians stretch back to the 1960s when Beijing provided food, weapons, training and support to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).<\/p>\n

More recently China has developed significant financial interests in the Middle East, but hosting the Palestinian reconciliation talks is a sign of it trying to increase its diplomatic clout in the region, at a time when its relationship with Israel – with whom it has economic interests – is strained over the Gaza conflict.<\/p>\n

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