A comprehensive national dialogue is due to start on Monday between
different opposition groups and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)
leaders, concerned sources revealed Sunday.
The first meeting between representatives of different factions and the chief
of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee Mahmoud
Abbas, better known as Abu Mazen, would held on Sunday, said Sami Abu Zuhri, a
spokesman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
He said that his movement won't declare a Hudna, or ceasefire with Israel,
until Israel "shows seriousness in stopping its military aggression on the
Palestinian people."
Abbas would arrive in Gaza later on Sunday. Official sources said that he
would first go to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters to
receive more Palestinian condolences.
Arafat died on Thursday of 75 at a French military Hospital.
The sources said that this time Abu Mazen would stay for a longer time in the
Gaza Strip, adding that he would not return back to Ramallah in the West Bank
until an agreement reached between the PNA and different factions.
