Senior members of Hamas and Fatah factions have forged a joint platform, including acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The document was formulated by senior Hamas and Fatah members who are imprisoned by Israel, and was presented to Abbas on Wednesday. "This document is very important. I adopt the position of those heroes," he said late Wednesday, referring to the prisoners. "It includes a deep and realistic political vision that to a very large extent represents my point of view."
However, Hamas legislator Salah Bardawil said he has not seen the document, but that the views of the Hamas prisoners are considered important.
The negotiations were held in Israel's Hadarim Prison, where Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and Abdel Khaleq Natshe of Hamas are serving time, the AP reported.
The document calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state "in all the lands occupied in 1967."
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Thursday he was not familiar with the Palestinian talks and saw no need to comment on an internal Palestinian matter.
The draft says that Palestinians would "focus their resistance on the lands occupied in 1967."
