Officials discuss civil liberties in first step toward unity govt

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) Palestinian officials from the West Bank and Gaza took a first step towards implementing the reconciliation agreement signed by Hamas and the Fatah-led PLO a week ago, a committee member said Wednesday.

Khalil Assaf told Ma'an that officials in Ramallah and Gaza City simultaneously convened a subcommittee meeting to discuss civil liberties in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under the Palestinian unity government that is due to be implemented within four weeks.

The meetings were to take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and would discuss the release of political detainees held in the West Bank and Gaza, Assaf said.

The subcommittee of freedoms was originally conceived of during a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement signed in Cairo in 2010, he added.

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