GAZA, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- A senior Palestinian official said in Gaza on Sunday that the Egyptian-sponsored internal Palestinian dialogue over reaching a cease-fire agreement with Israel are to be resumed in Cairo this week.
Dawood Shihab, spokesman of the Islamic Jihad, said in an emailed press statement that his group received an official invitation from the Egyptian Security Intelligence Services to join the dialogue in Cairo this week.
Meanwhile, a senior official speaking on condition of anonymity told Xinhua that the Islamic Hamas movement has also received on Sunday afternoon the same invitation to join the dialogue in Cairo.
The official said that the dialogue in Cairo will focus on two major issues: the first is reaching a truce or a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Gaza Hamas-led militants; the second is the Palestinian reconciliation and ending the internal division.
Before the festival of Eid al-Adha, leaders of various Palestinian factions and political powers, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad ended their round of dialogue in Cairo on the two issues, and agreed to resume their dialogue after the holiday.
"The Palestinian factions' position is overwhelmingly agreed upon that there will be no temporary cease-fire agreement without paying any political price and without setting up a time schedule," said Shihab.
He denied earlier reports saying that the truce dialogue in Cairo had achieved 80 percent and the Palestinian factions accepted the Israeli proposal of having a seaport for Gaza in Cyprus and airport near Eilat in southern Israel.
Meanwhile, a senior delegation representing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party ended on Sunday a two-day round of dialogue with the Egyptians, without unveiling any details on what had been discussed during the two days, local media said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Party insisted that any truce agreement to be signed with Israel has to be signed between Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel.
Fatah Party officials had earlier stated that they are opposing the idea that Hamas and other minor Palestinian factions signed on a truce agreement with Israel and neglect the PLO, which signed on the cease-fire agreement at the end of the last Israeli war on Gaza in 2014.
