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Egyptian conference deepens internal Fatah split

The conference on the Palestinian cause held in Ain Sokhna in Egypt stirred controversy among Fatah members supporting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and supporters of dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan.
RAMALLAH, :  Palestinian outgoing cabinet minister and Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan speaks in front of a portrait of Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas during a press conference he held in the West Bank city of Ramallah 15 January 2006. Israel gave its approval for Arab residents of annexed east Jerusalem to vote in this month's Palestinian election but made clear it would not tolerate campaigning by Islamic militant group Hamas. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI  (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/G
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Oct. 18 was the last day of the Egypt and the Palestinian Issue conference, which was held for the first time at the invitation of the National Center for Middle East Studies at the Ain Sokhna Red Sea resort to discuss the Palestinian cause and the situation in the Gaza Strip.

The conference was met with rejection by supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas inside the Fatah movement, under the pretext that it was funded by his sworn enemy, Mohammed Dahlan, a Fatah leader who was dismissed from the movement June 12, 2011.

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