Hamas holding talks on future status of Gaza

GAZA - Hamas leaders will hold talks in Cairo today on proposals to end the schism with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group by reshaping the way the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip is governed.

Egyptian mediators have proposed setting up a government of technocrats in the territory to prepare for early parliamentary and presidential elections and revamping, under Arab supervision, Gaza's security forces, Palestinian officials said.

Islamist Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from secular Fatah in fighting in June 2007. - (Reuters)

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