Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal shakes hands with a man as he leaves the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip December 10, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
DOHA (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Tuesday the Islamist group was close to mending rifts with rival President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organisation, but vowed resistance against Israel will continue.
Speaking at a gathering in Doha to mark "Nakba", the annual commemoration of what Palestinians term the catastrophe of their displacement when Israel was founded, Meshaal said Hamas has made sacrifices for the reconciliation to take place.
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