A handout picture released by the Palestinian president’s Press Office shows Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (C-R) meeting with the delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 22, 2014, ahead of its departure to Gaza for talks with Hamas. A senior Cairo-based Hamas official crossed yesterday from Egypt into the Gaza Strip ahead of a new attempt to reconcile the militant Islamist movement and its Palestine Liberation Organisation rivals. AFP PHOTO / PPO / THAER GHANAIM
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