Fatah optimistic about chances of truce

"We are doing everything to ensure the success of the dialogue which is taking place in very difficult conditions with the continuation of the (Israeli) aggression," Zacharia al-Agha told Voice of Palestine radio before his departure for Cairo.

"There are no substantial differences between the different movements but some differences of interpretation on certain subjects," said Agha who is also a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

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Another member of the Fatah delegation, public works minister Abdelrahman Hamad, also told AFP that an eventual truce would over time commit Israel to stopping "its daily aggressions" against the Palestinians and the construction of its West Bank separation barrier.