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Abbas seeks to secure ceasefire

Palestinian forces to be deployed on Gaza border

AFP, Gata City
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas was to hold talks with armed factions Wednesday in a bid to persuade them to end attacks on Israel, after the latest Hamas suicide bomb killed a Shin Beth security agent.
With Israel threatening its own large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip unless attacks are halted, the head of national security also confirmed that Palestinian security forces would be deployed along the border in the next few days.
After holding talks with the Hamas leadership after he arrived in GazalateTUesday, Abbas was scheduled to meet with the representatives of other factions including Islamic Jihad on Wednesday.
Plans for roundtable talks with all the factions we rehowevercancelled.
Hamas stud Tuesday’s two-hour meeting, which featured the movement's two top leaders in its Gaza stronghold. Mahmud Zahar and Ismail Haniya, took place in a "positive" atmosphere.
"We listened to Abu Mazen
(Abbas) about the issue of the ceasefire and the movement informed him that we will study this subject," Hamas spokesman Mushir al-MasritoldAFR
The meeting was a positive one. We exchanged opinions and everyone was concerned that we reach an understanding to ensure the strength ofournatlonal unity.”
Asource who attended the meeting said that while a formal ceasefire may not be announced, he was hopeful that a "cooling down period" was on the cards.
Ziad Abu Amr, an independent Gaza MP and former minister who was instrumental in persuading the factions to agree a ceasefire in the summer of 2003, voiced confidence that an agreement could be reached.
"The meeting was a positive and serious one and we can be optimistic," Abu Amr told AFR
Palestinian security forces will be deployed along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel this week after newly elected leader Mahmud Abbas gave orders to prevent militant attacks, a top security official
said Wednesday.
"We have agreed to redeploy the joint Palestinian security forces inside the cities to ensure security," General Abdelrazcq al-Majaydeh told reporters after a meeting with iXbbas in Gaza City.
"We also agreed that preparations will continue for national security forces to be redeployed along the border in the next two days to prevent the violations," Majaydeh, head of national security for the West Bank and Gaza, added.
The move comes after a suicide attack by the Islamic miltiant movement Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip in which an Israeli securityagent was killed.
Other security sources said that joint units, which will be under the control of the national security council, would also be deployed inside the main Palestinian cities from Wednesday in a bid to limit the carryingofweaponson thestreets.
Abbas has pledged to end what he calls the "armed chaos" on Palestinian streets where militants are often seen openly carryingfirearms.