Moscow plans to host unity talks between all Palestinian factions, including Hamas, on February 26, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said Sunday, as he called for unilateral statehood recognition as a prerequisite to peace talks.
“Russia has invited all Palestinian factions who will be meeting on the 26th of this month in Moscow,” Shtayyeh told the Munich Security Conference during a public interview.
He explained that the Palestine Liberation Organization’s invitation for Hamas to join it was a conditional one and would come into play only if the group accepted certain prerequisites.
“One should not continue focusing on October 7,” Shtayyeh said, as he denounced Hamas’s actions on that day.
“No way [do] we accept any killing of any innocent civilian people,” he said, but added that, “we need a situation in which Palestinians are united, but again on our political agenda.”
He clarified that this would include a Hamas acceptance of “two states on the border of ’67, through peaceful means,” he said.
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