The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) welcomes the current Egypt sponsored reconciliation dialogue carried out in Cairo.
PNGO affirms that Hamas's announcement of the dissolution of it administrative committee in Gaza followed by the invitations to the consensus government to come to Gaza and take over its responsibilities and duties immediately in the Gaza Strip, are considerable steps that must be followed by cessation of measures taken by the PA against the Strip, to enhance the mutual trust and complement the reconciliation in order to ensure the unity of the Palestinian position.
PNGO considers the current steps as substantial towards achieving national unity and ending a decade of internal division that granted the Israeli occupation a chance to expand and deepen its practices in the West Bank through land confiscation and Judaization of Jerusalem and through tightening the unjust siege and launching large-scale military operations in the Gaza Strip, thereby committing serious violations of Palestinians' Human Rights.
PNGO stresses that the internal division has seriously affected the Palestinian people lives and weakened their resilience, especially in the Gaza Strip where electricity cuts reached over 20 hours of the day, and poverty, unemployment and migration-seekers among youth reached world's highest rates, as well as where reconstruction failed; the overcoming of which, requires the achievement of reconciliation.
PNGO affirms that it's time to implement Cairo agreement and activate the role of national consensus government to exercise its functions, resolve all outstanding issues and prepare for general elections, to strengthen the Palestinian institutions through political partnership and overcoming the exclusion, domination and exploitation policies.
As the current Cairo dialogue made "positive'' steps towards reconciliation, PNGO considers that involving the Palestinian political and social forces in Egypt's dialogues creates a popular wrap for reconciliation and guarantees its maintenance, protection, and implementation in a manner that ensures progress to achieve unity based on democracy and resilience.
The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) follows with the great confidence the Hamas-Fatah dialogue in Cairo in the hope of a quick response from both parties to Egypt's great efforts to turn the page of internal division and open a new page of unity, cohesion and partnership to put the Palestinian political house in order and restore the unified national and democratic action, to achieve the goals of the Palestinian people for freedom, independence and return.
