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Mecca Accord

Mecca Accord

Mecca,  8 February 2007

Based on the generous initiative announced by Saudi King Abdallah Bin 'Abd al-'Aziz and under the sponsorship of his majesty, Fatah and Hamas movements held in the period 6-8 February 2007 in Holy Mecca the dialogues of Palestinian conciliation and agreement and these dialogues, thanks to God, ended with success and an agreement was reached on the following:

First: to ban the shedding of Palestinian blood and to take all measures and arrangements to prevent the shedding of Palestinian blood; to stress the importance of national unity as the basis for national steadfastness and confronting the occupation and to achieving the legitimate national goals of the Palestinian people; and to adopt the language of dialogue as the sole basis for solving political disagreements in the Palestinian arena.

Within this context, we offer gratitude to the brothers in Egypt and the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza, who exerted tremendous efforts to calm conditions in the Gaza Strip during the recent period.

Second: Final agreement to form a Palestinian national unity government according to a detailed agreement ratified by both sides and to start on an urgent basis to take the constitutional measures to form this government.

Third: to move ahead in measures to activate and reform the PLO and accelerate the work of the preparatory committee based on the Cairo and Damascus Understandings.

Third: to move ahead in measures to activate and reform the Palestine Liberation Organization and accelerate the work of the preparatory committee based on the Cairo and Damascus understandings.

Both sides have agreed on detailed steps regarding this issue.
Fourth: to stress the principle of political partnership on the basis of the effective laws in the Palestinian Authority and on the basis of political pluralism according to an agreement ratified between both parties.

We gladly announce this agreement to the Palestinian masses and to the Arab and Islamic nation and to all our friends in the world. We stress our commitment to this agreement in text and spirit so that we can devote our time to achieving our national goals and to ridding ourselves of the occupation and regaining our rights and devoting work to the main dossiers, mainly Jerusalem, refugees, al-Aqsa mosque, prisoners and detainees, and confronting the wall and settlements.


Source: Journal of Palestine Studies 36, no.3 (Spring 2007): 189.