News Analysis: Fatah gains popularity in Gaza (2)

Despite the positive atmosphere to achieve a real unity between Fatah and Hamas, still the two rivals' top leaders haven't held any talks related to the implementation of reconciliation agreement they had reached in Egypt and Qatar.

"Unity and reconciliation can never be achieved only through holding rallies in Gaza and the West Bank," said Atallah, who insisted that the leaders of the two groups should meet soon.

However, Ahmed Rafiq Awad, a political science professor at Beir Zeit University in the West Bank, told Xinhua that there is a great concern that Fatah and Hamas are "trying to earn the largest popular Palestinian and Arab support while going in two parallel lines that can never meet."

Talal Oukal, a Gaza-based political analyst, told Xinhua that regardless of their popularity, "every Palestinian who thinks in a reasonable way believe that the two groups are bringing the Palestinian people toward a long-term division."

Nevertheless, Abu Se'da said what happened in Gaza Friday is "a positive sign," and real Egyptian interference is needed to bring them to the negotiating table.

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