In Gaza Reconciliation Effort, Palestinian Politician Seeks a Comeback<br />Imad Mohsen said that Today, Hamas has recognized that Dahlan is a powerful man in the region,<br />The son of Bassem Qotob, an officer in Mr. Dahlan’s security force who was killed by Hamas militants in 2006, said he was willing<br />to accept the compensation, which is also being offered to families of victims of interfactional fighting before and after 2007.<br />The program is unlikely to help resolve the broader schism dividing the two main Palestinian political groups, whose relations have continued<br />to deteriorate as the Palestinian Authority withholds funds from Gaza to press Hamas into yielding control there, so far without success.<br />The killing was one of hundreds during clashes between Hamas, the Islamist group,<br />and Fatah, the faction loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, for control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.<br />Last month, the reconciliation program organized a series of public events across the Gaza Strip, bringing together bereaved families affiliated with both Hamas<br />and with Fatah, which still has sizable support among ordinary Gazans.<br />Khalil Qotob said that It was very painful,
