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Hamas refuses to take part in Palestinian elections

Islamist movement Hamas will not take part in the Palestinian elections set for January 24 and will ban them in the Gaza Strip it controls

01:20 24/10/2009

Islamist movement Hamas will not take part in the Palestinian elections set for January 24 and will ban them in the Gaza Strip it controls

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Fatah-Hamas reconciliation pact

In early September Cairo put forward a new document to reconcile the two largest Palestinian factions, which split in June 2007 when Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip and pushed the Fatah movement out of the enclave. The six previous rounds of reconciliation talks resulted in failure.

A reconciliation pact between the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas will be signed on October 26 in Cairo.