A senior Palestinian official revealed on Monday that two leaders of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement will arrive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday to study the situation in the enclave.

Abdalla al-Ifranji told reporters that Abbas has assigned him and senior Fatah leader Marwan Abdel Hamid to head to Gaza on Tuesday to closely look at the situation and study the possibilities of reconstructing the Gaza Strip.

Al-Ifranji said they will hold talks with the leaders of all Palestinian factions to evaluate the destruction caused by the Israeli offensive carried out on Gaza in December and January, which means that they will also hold talks with Hamas.

Israel had carried out a 22-day military air, sea and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, which ended on January 18. Thousands of houses, government and security buildings were leveled to the ground.

The two rival groups, Fatah and Hamas, failed last week to overcome their differences on four major issues. They decided to get back to talk again in Cairo on April 26.

"This visit and the talks we will hold in Gaza won't be an alternative to the dialogue in Cairo. This visit aims at deepening this dialogue and to give a positive push to the dialogue in Cairo," said al-Ifranji.