Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah on Thursday adjourned Egyptian-mediated reconciliation talks until later this month without reaching agreement, Palestinian officials said.
According to Reuters, a Palestinian official said the round of talks had ended inconclusively and would be resumed on April 26. "There were new ideas addressed that will need more consultations within the institutions of each party," Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar told Reuters. "The talks were adjourned for two weeks."
Differences remained over the political agenda for any unity government, Hamas officials said.
On his part, Nabil Shaath, a senior Fatah official, refused to call the suspension of the talks a failure, saying "it was neither a failure nor a success".
