By embracing the Gaza protests, Fatah is playing into the hands of Hamas
Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian factions said that the failure of the UN to support the resolution was a “slap in the face of America” and a “victory for the Palestinian resistance.”
Moscow hosts Hamas and Fatah members amid ongoing efforts to forge Palestinian unity and ahead of the roll-out of the Trump administration's peace plan
"Our weapons will remain in our hands and there are no conditions regarding Hamas's right to [continue] the resistance."
Hamas says it has accepted an Egyptian proposal to end the dispute with Fatah.
Officials set up a fund to make payments to families that lost their sons in the internecine Palestinian conflict in 2007, in return for publicly renouncing the demand to avenge their deaths.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for local groups to disarm, saying that they hurt the push for a unified Palestinian state.
Most analysts contend that Hamas will not lay down its arms, as called for by PA President Mahmoud Abbas as a precondition for assuming control over the enclave.
The burgeoning truce with the PA is Hamas's admission that when it came to governing it had no idea what to do.
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