Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah will meet with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and the Jordanian and Israeli leaders.
Egypt moved forcefully Thursday to isolate Hamas, calling a regional summit next week including the Israelis and Palestinians — and shunning contacts with the militant group after its takeover of Gaza.
Closing ranks against Hamas, Egypt's president invited Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit, officials said Thursday, the biggest show of support yet by moderate Arab states for beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The meeting, which will take place in Sharm el-Sheik on the Red Sea, President Hosni Mubarak's favorite resort for such events, represents an effort by American allies Egypt, Jordan and Israel to further isolate the radical Islamic movement Hamas, which took over the Gaza Strip last week, routing Fatah.
Closing ranks against Hamas, Egypt has invited Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a summit next week.
Egypt's president has invited the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit, officials said Thursday, the biggest show of support yet by moderate Arab states for beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
A four-way summit is to take place in Egypt on Monday between the Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, a spokesman for the Palestinian president said on Thursday.
In a show of support for the beleaguered Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has invited the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a summit meeting next week.
It took exactly half a century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious palace overlooking Egypt's Mediterranean and immortalised in Lawrence Durrell's classic, "The Alexandria Quartet."
Israeli forces have begun moving 100 Palestinians, including 30 women and 32 terror suspects, from the Gaza Strip into Egypt.