Abbas meets Israelis in first post-Hamas contact

22 May 2006

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas met top Israeli officials in the highest-level contact between the two sides since the shock election win of the Islamist militant movement Hamas. The encounter, on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum conference in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, came amid deadly Israeli raids on the Palestinian territories and a surge in violence between rival Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip. Full Story

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