Fatah youth appoints new student deputy

Fatah youth movement in the Gaza Strip said Saturday that it is reforming its leadership structure. The group stated that Asad Obaid has been appointed as deputy of the student secretariat. Obaid was previously director of the student assembly at Al-Aqsa university in Gaza. The group said in a statement that recent reconciliation talks have allowed the youth branch to work again after several years of inactivity due to the political split. Two delegations representing Hamas and Fatah are scheduled to meet in Cairo on Sunday to evaluate what has been achieved on the ground since the heads of both parties met a month ago. Fatah leader president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal met a month earlier in the Egyptian capital, declaring that the meeting had brought them together and eliminated any differences.