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Hamas invites Abbas to Gaza for talks

Rice in shuttle talks with Israel, Palestinians

AFP, LondonJ Jerusalem
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal invited Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to Gaza for unconditional talks on the two factions' divisions, in a television interview yesterday.
He also told British broadcaster Sky News that Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in June 2006, is still alive and being treated well.
"We invite Mahmud Abbas to come to Gaza to talk directly without any conditions., to work together to find a solution to the problems in Gaza and the West Bank. ' Meshaal said, speaking from an undisclosed location in Damascus.
The aim of the talks would be "get back our Palestinian union and find the reasons for our problems and to solve the security
problem," he added
The invitation comes after rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Abbas's Fatah reached a Yemeni-brokered deal on March 23 to open their first direct talks since the Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip nine months ago.
But within hours of signing that agreement, the two bitter rivals bickered over its meaning, with Hamas focusing on the first part of the statement while Fatah highlighted the second as a precondition for any talks.
And the day after the deal was struck, a senior Israeli official warned Abbas against striking a reconciliation deal with Hamas, saying it would effectively sink faltering Middle East peace talks.
The Hamas seizure of Gaza effec -lively split the Palestinian territories into two separate entities with the
Islamists controlling the impover-ished coastal strip and Abbas ruling the occupied West Bank.
Israel considers Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state, a ten or group and refuses to haw any direct dealings with it.
On Shalit, Meshaal said: "Gilad is still alive and we are treating him in a good way while the Israelis treat our prisoners badly and everyone knows that.”
Shalit was seized on June 25, 2006 from an army base near Gaza by militants from three groups including Hamas, which evicted Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah group from the territory in a week of bloody clashes last June.
Last April, 1 lamas sent to Israel, through Egypt, a list of 450 prison ers it wanted freed in exchange for Shalit.
Meanwhile, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Monday he will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on April 7, for their first talks in seven weeks
"My meeting with the prime minister will be held soon, I believe it will be on April 7," Abbas told a joint news conference in Amman with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after her latest push for peace secured a pledge to remow some roadblocks in the occu-piedWest Bank
Rice also held three-way talks with top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and she was scheduled to meet with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Amman for die second time in two days.