In an interview with the official Palestine Television from the Lebanese capital on Sunday evening, Haneyya said a government of national unity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would undertake three tasks that could be the gateway to ending the Palestinian division.

Haneyya explained that the government's tasks are to unify the institutions of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza and to prepare for the holding of legislative and presidential elections to be followed by the National Council. The third task is related to ending the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and confronting the occupation and its plans in the occupied West Bank, he elaborated.

He pointed out that a committee entrusted with finding means to end the division emerged from the meeting of the leaders of the Palestinian factions, which was held simultaneously in the cities of Ramallah and the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday.

Hamas’s leader said that the meeting of the factions was held at a critical stage. He added that one of the meeting’s goals is to work to save the national project, fortify the Palestinian house, and not allow any party to penetrate it.

Leaders of the Palestinian factions held a meeting on Thursday in Ramallah and Beirut with the participation of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, to discuss ways to confront challenges to the Palestinian cause.

ILKHA