A senior Fatah movement's official announced on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered to free 40 jailed members of Hamas movement in the West Bank soon.

Azzam, el-Ahmed said in a press statement that President Abbas ordered to free 40 Hamas members from Palestinian prisons on Thursday "as part of his efforts to close the political detainees file in both Gaza and West Bank."

Earlier on Wednesday, Hamas accused Abbas security forces for detaining 100 members all over the West Bank within the last 48 hours, adding that the arrests "might thwart the national dialogue expected in Cairo soon."

Senior Hamas official Salah el-Bardaweel announced that his movement received an official invitation from Egypt to hold a sixth round of dialogue with rival Fatah movement in Cairo on June28.

Egypt insists that rival Fatah of president Abbas and Islamic Hamas movement should sign an agreement of reconciliation on July 7. Egypt invited the two movements' leaders to resume their dialogue in Cairo on June 28.

After Fatah and Hamas leaders end their bilateral dialogue in Cairo on June 28, Egypt will invite the chiefs of all Palestinian factions for a large session on July 5, before a final agreement is signed on July 7.

El-Ahmed reiterated that dismantling the political prisoners' file in both Gaza and the West Bank "will continue in order to create a better atmosphere for the dialogue expected to be resumed on Sunday next week."

He called on Hamas "to stop releasing statements of incitement against Fatah and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), "adding "these statements might thwart the inter-recondition dialogue."

Asked about Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz al-Dweik's call on Wednesday to hold a session for the parliament to discuss the current rift, el-Ahmed said "a session for the parliament can't beheld until President Abbas issues a decree to hold it."

He expressed hope that the session of the parliament that hadn't been held for more than two years "will be held in the frame of the understanding of all the parties in order to be able to end the current political rift."

(Xinhua News Agency June 25, 2009)