Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya dismissed talks about civil war following fighting between his Hamas movement and Fatah party. "The term civil war does not appear in the Palestinian vocabulary," he told reporters after talks with various faction representatives in Gaza City.
"I assure all the Palestinian people that we are capable of overcoming these events," said Haniya.
So far, no progress was made in crisis talks brokered by Egypt and hopes are already waning for the success of a "national dialogue" to be presided over by Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas with all factions, scheduled for Thursday and Friday.
