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The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday accused Hamas of holding secret talks with Israel that would endorse the separation of Palestinian territories.

Arab and Turkish media have carried reports, picked up by Israeli media, claiming Israel and Hamas were holding talks.

The talks were reportedly aimed at reaching an eight- or 10-year truce, with Israel removing its blockade on the coastal Palestinian territory.

Israel on Monday denied it was engaged in "any meetings with Hamas, neither directly, nor via other countries or intermediaries".

But the PA weighed in on Tuesday, insisting there were talks that would cause Palestinian disunity.

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Abbas meets Israeli opposition leader in Ramallah

President Mahmoud Abbas met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Tuesday at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah.

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Are Israel and Hamas really talking about ending Gaza siege?

Israel and the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas may be close to a long-term truce for Gaza, an advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said.

Although murmurs of a such a deal have appeared in media for months, the official’s comments would appear to give them slightly more weight.

In an interview with Alresalah, a Gaza-based newspaper close to Hamas, on Monday, Yasin Aktay also said that Israel and Turkey were nearing a deal over Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara.

Israel’s May 2010 assault on the ship, part of a Gaza-bound flotilla, killed nine Turkish citizens and a Turkish teen who held US citizenship, badly damaging relations between the two countries.

The Turkish official said there had been significant progress toward a long-term truce that would end Israel’s 8-year blockade of Gaza.

Aktay, deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling AK party, said that the recent visit of Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to Ankara was related to the effort.

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