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April 2, 2011</p>
<p>RAMALLAH (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that there can be no real peace with Israel without national unity.</p>
<p>Abbas  said he was determined to go to Gaza to form a national unity  government, the official Palestinian Authority news agency reported.</p>
<p>His remarks came at a meeting with the families of prisoners who are protesting for an end to division between Fatah and Hamas.</p>
<p>Fatah  and Hamas have been at loggerheads since 2007 when the Islamist  movement took control of the Gaza Strip, routing Abbas loyalists. A  process of reconciliation between the two is yet to yield any results.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s  military leadership will host Abbas next week in a bid to strengthen  Cairo&#8217;s role as mediator between Fatah and Hamas, state news agency MENA  said Saturday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Egypt is intensifying its efforts on the  Palestinian issue, particularly on the subject of reconciling Hamas and  Fatah and finding an end to division between them,&#8221; said MENA.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s  ambassador to the PA Yasser Othman told Ma&#8217;an the president was invited  by Egypt&#8217;s foreign affairs minister Nabil Al-Arabi on behalf of the  country&#8217;s de facto leader Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi.</p>
<p>Othman said Egypt supported Abbas&#8217; initiative to visit the Gaza Strip and form a unity government to prepare for elections.</p>
<p>Egypt has been a long-standing mediator between the two factions as well as between Palestinians and Israelis.</p>
<p><strong>AFP contributed to this report.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=374793">Source</a></p>
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