Fatah–Hamas Mecca Agreement Explained

Fatah–Hamas Mecca Agreement
Location Signed:	Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Signatories:	Mahmoud Abbas Khaled Mashal
Parties:	Fatah Hamas
Language:	Arabic

The Fatah–Hamas Mecca Agreement was signed between Fatah and Hamas in the city of Mecca on 8 February 2007, agreeing to stop the internal military confrontations in the Gaza Strip and form a government of national unity. Representatives from the Fatah side included the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas and parliament member Mohammed Dahlan. The Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashal represented Hamas.

Content

The Mecca Agreement contains four determinations:

1. Stop and prevent the shedding of Palestinian blood; unite and confront the occupation; adopt the language of dialogue as the sole basis for solving the political disagreements
2. Form a Palestinian national unity government
3. Activate and reform the PLO and accelerate the work of the preparatory committee based on the Cairo and Damascus Understandings
4. Political partnership on the basis of the effective laws in the PNA and on the basis of political pluralism

Mecca agreement text

The text of the Mecca Agreement:^[1]

Aftermath

The agreement failed to unite the Palestinian National Authority and the Hamas Administration in Gaza. A further implementation agreement was signed in Doha in 2012, ratified by May 2012 Cairo agreement, both yet failing to promote joint elections. With the boycott of the Hamas, the Palestinian local elections of 2012 took place in October, without participation of Gazan residents.

See also

• Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process
• Palestinian Cairo Declaration
• Palestinian Prisoners' Document
• Middle East peace efforts

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20080212122709/http://www.jmcc.org/documents/meccaagree.htm Mecca Agreement