Abbas to Meet Qatar Emir, Hamas’ Meshaal in Doha on Thursday

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Palestinian authority president Mahmoud Abbas will travel to Doha on Wednesday and hold talks the next day with the emir of Qatar and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Thursday, the Palestinian ambassador in Qatar said.

Abbas' visit to Qatar was initially announced for Monday by Palestinian officials who are in Egypt's Cairo for indirect talks with the Zionist regime on a lasting truce in seized Gaza.

Abbas will discuss separately with Meshaal and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Thursday the latest developments in the negotiations in Cairo and "aid and reconstruction" in seized Gaza, Palestinian ambassador Monir Ghannam said.

Abbas will then travel on to Cairo from Doha as part of contacts the Palestinian leadership is staging "with all the parties concerned" in the "Israel"-Palestinian conflict, Ghannam said on Tuesday.

A new 24-hour cease-fire in seized Gaza will last until midnight on Tuesday under a last minute deal reached in Cairo on Monday night.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team