The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced its readiness for comprehensive general elections, which include the presidential, legislative and National Council elections, in response to the invitation of President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
The movement called in a statement to agree on the steps for the success of these elections to meet the serious challenges.
And demanded the Palestinian President to "leave the square of political settlement, which has proved its failure and damage," and disintegration of the Oslo agreement, and national consensus on a comprehensive strategy to confront the US-backed occupation projects to liquidate the Palestinian cause in what is known as the deal of the century.
The Palestinian president announced in his speech at the United Nations that he would call for general elections in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem upon his return to Ramallah.
Earlier, Hamas announced its acceptance of an initiative by eight Palestinian factions to achieve reconciliation to end the internal division in the Palestinian arena since mid-2007, while the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) described it as a "loose leaf of courtesies" It is not crucial. "
The leaders of these eight factions of the island Net that their patience will not be long and will resort to the Palestinian masses in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and the Diaspora in order to move in the field demonstrations million to press for reconciliation.
Al-Jazeera Net learned from leading sources that the factions will meet in Gaza on Saturday to consider the steps that will be taken based on the official response of Fatah and Hamas to the initiative.
These factions are Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front, the Palestinian People's Party, the National Initiative Movement, the Palestinian Democratic Union (FEDA), the Popular Front-General Command, and the Vanguard of the People's Liberation War.
The initiative presented by these factions included four items:
Article I: The need to consider the previous national reconciliation agreements as a reference to end the division and restore national unity.
Item 2: The meeting of the Committee for the Activation and Development of the Palestine Liberation Organization (Secretaries-General) was held in October 2019 in the Egyptian capital in the presence of the Palestinian President.
Item 3: Considering the period between October 2019 and July 2020 as a transitional phase to achieve national unity and end the division.
Item 4: The need to establish a timetable for the transitional period in which four tasks are implemented: agreeing on the formation of a transitional national unity government by the end of 2019, unifying the electoral laws of the Palestinian national institutions, resuming the preparatory committee meetings to prepare for the elections of the Palestinian National Council, and holding comprehensive elections. Legislative, presidential and national council in mid-2020.