Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat met in the Gaza Strip with leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. An Islamic Jihad official was quoted as telling reporters that the group had told Arafat to break off negotiations with Israel because the Oslo peace accords had failed.
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