Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the executive committee of the PLO and the central committee of the Fatah movement, has said that President Mahmoud Abbas will invite the general secretaries of the factions to attend an emergency meeting in Cairo. The Palestinian leadership chose Egypt as a location for the meeting to bring all factions together, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. An informed source told Asharq Al-Awsat in remarks published Friday that all Palestinian factions will be invited, saying Abbas would attend the meeting as “the president of the Palestinian people.”