DAMASCUS - Syrian Vice President Faruq Al Shara met an envoy from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday for talks on the ‘crisis’ in Gaza following the territory’s takeover by Hamas Islamists.Shara told Abbas Zaki of his ‘regret’ at the situation in Gaza, where more than 110 people have been killed in fighting between Hamas and president Abbas’s secular Fatah movement over the past week, the official SANA news agency reported. He called during the meeting in Damascus for an end to ‘escalation and avoidance of provocations which divide the Palestinian people,’ according to the agency.
Zaki presented a message for Syrian President Bashar Al Assad from Abbas, who on Sunday named an emergency cabinet to replace the Palestinian unity government dominated by Hamas. He said that Syria, where several senior Hamas figures including its political supremo Khaled Meshaal are based, had an important role to play in supporting inter-Palestinian dialogue and ‘finding solutions.’
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