ALGIERS: Palestinian chairman Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met intimately for the first time over five times, on the sidelines of Algerian independence anniversary fests.
Algeria’s state broadcaster reported late Tuesday that representatives of the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas movement also attended this meeting, which is called “ major ”.
The brace, who officially last met face-to-face in Doha in October 2016, were brought together in a meeting with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, whose country marked the 60th anniversary of independence from France.
Abbas ’ temporal Fatah party, which dominates the Palestinian Authority that rules the Israeli- engaged West Bank, has been at loggerheads with Hamas since choices in 2007 when the movement took control of Gaza.
Tebboune and Abbas also inked a document to name a road “ Algeria ” in the West Bank megacity of Ramallah.
Palestinian killed
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the enthralled West Bank on Wednesday as he was trying to flee an army raid, officers on both sides said.
The Palestinian health ministry linked the man as Rafiq Riyad Ghannem, 20, saying he was shot by Israeli colors in Jaba, a city near the flashpoint megacity of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Israel’s service said it had conducted “ counterterrorism exertion ” in Jaba beforehand on Wednesday.
