FILE PHOTO: Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub speaks as deputy Hamas chief Saleh Arouri appears on a television screen during a video conference to discuss Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in Ramallah July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian factions have agreed to hold an election within six months, in the latest of many attempts to end more than a decade of infighting between President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and his Islamist rival Hamas.
The factions renewed reconciliation efforts after Israel reached diplomatic accords this month with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, an event that dismayed Palestinians and prompted their leaders to try to present a united front.
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