Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 9:56 am
On February 4, representatives from the Palestinian
Movement, Hamas,
visited Moscow to inform the Russian government of the
latest development on the unity talks between the Islamic
Movement and its Palestinian counterparts, especially
Fatah.
This was not the first time that Hamas’s
officials traveled to Moscow on similar missions. In fact,
Moscow continues to represent an important political
breathing space for Hamas, which has been isolated by
Israel s Western benefactors. Involved in this isolation are
also several Arab governments which, undoubtedly, have done
very little to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.
The
Russia-Hamas closeness is already paying dividends. On