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Israeli Man, Palestinian Child Killed In Attacks
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"Let us hold a national and comprehensive dialogue . . . to end the national schism which has inflicted severe damage on our cause and more suffering on the Palestinian people," Abbas said in televised remarks.
Hamas leaders have signaled that they are ready. "We have to encourage the people. We have to dry their wounds. We have to clean their tears and to heal their pain," Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, said in a speech in Gaza City on Thursday.
It has been nearly a year since Hamas, which won parliamentary elections in 2006, ousted forces loyal to Abbas from Gaza and took control of the territory following a failed attempt at a power-sharing government. Since then, fighters aligned with Hamas have intensified their campaign against Israeli targets near the narrow coastal strip. Israel, meanwhile, has steadily tightened an economic embargo on Gaza, leading to widespread shortages of fuel, electricity and other basic goods.
Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a petition by human rights groups that challenged the legality of the fuel restrictions on the grounds that Israel is not meeting its obligations to Gaza's 1.5 million people.
Special correspondent Islam Abdulkarim in Gaza City contributed to this report.
