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Hamas Leader's Tunisia Visit Angers Palestinian Officials
TUNIS: A visit by Gaza's Hamas leader has angered the official Palestinian representatives in Tunisia who say they were ignored during the talks with the new government, a Palestinian source said Saturday.
Ismail Haniya, prime minister in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, visited Tunis Thursday to meet with the new moderate Islamist-led administration while he was on a tour of the region.
But that did not sit well with representatives of the Palestinian Authority led by president Mahmud Abbas.
"The Palestinians are furious. Neither the government nor the foreign ministry, nor the (Islamist) Ennahda party informed them of the dates and programme of Haniya's visit, as they should have," the Palestinian source told AFP.
Another source told the Arabic language newspaper Le Maghreb that the lack of communication could hamper reconciliation efforts going on between Hamas and Abbas's Fatah party.
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