PLO urges Hamas to accept Gaza power-sharing

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SANAA (AFP) — A PLO delegation in Yemen for a Palestinian reconciliation bid on Tuesday urged the Islamist movement Hamas to return to power-sharing in the embattled Gaza Strip with its Fatah party rivals.

"We hope that our Hamas brothers will accept the (reconciliation) initiative as it has been presented by the Yemeni leadership," Saleh Raafat, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive committee, told AFP.

"Its acceptance would immediately clear the way to an inter-Palestinian national dialogue," he said in Sanaa.

Another member of the delegation, Qaid Abdelkarim, a leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said that Hamas's agreement in principle would return the rival factions to the negotiating table.

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