The Mecca Agreement contains four determinations: • Stop and prevent the shedding of Palestinian blood; unite and confront the occupation; adopt the language of dialogue as the sole basis for solving the political disagreements • Form a Palestinian national unity government • Activate and reform the
PLO and accelerate the work of the preparatory committee based on the Cairo and Damascus Understandings • Political partnership on the basis of the effective laws in the
PNA and on the basis of political pluralism
Mecca agreement text The text of the Mecca Agreement:
Mahmoud Abbas's letter to Ismail Haniyeh The agreement was accompanied by a letter that authorized Hamas's leader Ismail Haniyeh to form a government, but on the condition that he "respect" agreements signed by the PLO, including the
Oslo Accords. There was significant discussion as to what the word "respect" meant, as Hamas insisted it would "respect" PLO's agreements with Israel without fully "committing itself" to such agreements. ==Aftermath==