Fatah denies President El Sisi offered unity agreement with Hamas

West Bank faction Fatah denied that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi brokered a Palestinian unity agreement between it and Gaza rivals Hamas, Arutz Sheva reports. Nothing new came out of meetings between Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and El Sisi, according to Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al Ahmad, who had been present. We had noted that the supposed agreement included dissolving the Hamas-run government committee in Gaza and Abbas alleviating punitive measures, such as slashing power supply to Gaza, in return. Hamas, officials, who had reportedly accepted El Sisi’s proposal, were the sole front to confirm the agreement’s existence.