Article: Roundup: Reports conflicted over Hamas travel ban on Fatah members

Roundup: Reports conflicted over Hamas travel ban on Fatah members

by Saud Abu Ramadan

GAZA/RAMALLAH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Although leaders of the secular Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday confirmed that Hamas will let its members to travel to the West Bank to join the movement's sixth General Assembly, leaders of the Islamic movement in Gaza denied.

Around 1,700 Fatah members are scheduled to join their sixth movement's conference due to be held in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Aug. 4, to elect new leaders and members of the central committee and the revolutionary council. Among them, 400 are from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

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