Palestinian officials have indicated they are to hold talks in Egypt in the coming days in a bid to ease factional tensions that erupted in violence in Gaza this month.
Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Azzam al-Ahmad, a close aide to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah movement, said today that he and another Fatah leader will travel to Cairo tomorrow to meet Egyptian officials.
Earlier, Mr Abbas called on militants in Gaza to end their rocket attacks on Israel.
He said they were obstructing efforts to reach a truce with the Israelis.
Mr Abbas also condemned retaliatory air strikes by Israel.
He was speaking after talks with the EU Foreign Policy chief, Javier Solana.
Mr Solana said there were signs that the Hamas-led Palestinian unity government might be successful in convincing the Gaza-based militants to stop the attacks.
