Fatah, Hamas agreement to stop clashes between them
Palestine, Politics, 7/20/2005

Both Fatah and Hamas movements have exchanged accusations for the responsibility of the renewed confrontations which are considered the second of its kind in less than one week.

Al-Aqsa martyrs groups held al-Qassam group responsible for Tuesday's clashes. On the other side, Hamas said that burning a research center associated with it, and chasing cars driven by the movement's resistance men, and opening fire at its fighters, were all acts behind the eruption of confrontations with the Palestinian Authority security men.

The spokesman for Hamas, Mushir al-Masri, said that members of the Fatah movement from the Palestinian preventive security forces opened fire at Hamas members, calling on "men of reason" in both the Authority and Fatah to halt what he called violence, and to be responsible for halting this deterioration.

For his part, the Palestinian prime minister Ahmad Qurei' expressed regret over Tuesday's clashes and stressed that these clashes are deliberately not justified, demanding all Palestinian forces and groups to enhance the supremacy of security and the law.

However, today, the Fatah Movement and Hamas agreed to remove all armed demonstrations from the streets of north Gaza and other parts of the sector following bloody confrontations between gunmen from Hamas on the one hand, and the security forces from al-Aqsa martyrs groups of the national liberation front ( Fatah) on the other.

The Palestinian prisoners affairs minister Sufian Abi Zayedeh held a joint press conference in Gaza with the leading figure in Hamas, Nizar Rayyan, to announce this agreement in the first hours of today, at dawn.

Minister Abu Zayedeh said that the agreement was implemented immediately and armed men from the two sides started actually to withdraw from the streets of Jabalia camp north Gaza, noting that the agreement calls for ending all forms of clashes and violence and withdrawing all armed men from the streets and allies of Gaza.

The minister explained that the two sides also agreed to convene a meeting today to continue implementation of the agreement on the ground and ending all matters conducive to tension between the two sides.

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