Palestinian militant group Hamas wants Russia to pressure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to begin talks on a national unity government for post-war Gaza, a senior Hamas official told state news agency RIA after the talks in Moscow.
Mousa Abu Marzouk, a member of the Hamas politburo, met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow.
“We discussed issues related to Palestinian national unity and the creation of a government that should govern the Gaza Strip after the war,” Marzouk said, quoted by RIA.
Marzouk said Hamas had asked Russia to encourage Abbas, who is attending the BRICS summit in Kazan, to begin talks on a unity government, RIA reported.
Abbas is head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the governing body of the occupied Palestinian territories.
The PA was created three decades ago under the interim peace agreement known as the Oslo Accords and exercises limited governance over parts of the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians want as the nucleus of a future independent state.
The PA, controlled by Abbas’ Fatah political faction, has long had a tense relationship with Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza, and the two factions fought a brief war before Fatah was expelled from the territory in 2007.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed strong opposition to the PA’s involvement in the administration of Gaza. Hamas wants Russia to pressure the Palestinian president toward a unity government for post-war Gaza.
This content was originally published in Hamas calls on Russia to form a post-war government in the Gaza Strip on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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