Palestinian split became one of the largest splits within Arab world, President of the Palestinian Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, said at the sixth conference of Palestine Liberation Organization, launched on Tuesday in Bethlehem, Al Jazeera TV channel said.
"We all live in a dream to return to our lands and reunite again," Abbas said at the opening conference, held for the first time since 1989.
Abbas said that founders of the Palestinian movement, Fatah, headed the government in the West Bank, chose military resistance as one of main ways to protect their rights.
Differences between regimes within Arab world promoted Palestinian problem to be almost forgotten, but Palestinians are integral part of Arab world. The Palestinian movement will not allow the impact of differences between regimes towards solving of Palestinian problems.
Abbas accused the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, of split, which controls the Gaza strip, but also poses obstacles towards Palestinian unity.
Before, Hamas refused from releasing members of Fatah from the Gaza strip to participate in the conference in Bethlehem, despite numerous appeals and threat of Palestinian leadership.
Differences between two Palestinian parties launched in 2006, when Hamas won parliamentary elections. Fatah boycotted election results. As a result, military clashes took place between supporters of Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza strip. Hamas ousted Fatah forces from the enclave in 2007. Despite several negotiations to establish the government of national unity under mediation of Egypt, two sides failed to agree.