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The Latest: Palestinian PM in Gaza in reconciliation effort

A Palestinian Fatah member receives greetings after being released from a Hamas jail in front of the interior ministry, in Gaza City, Sunday Oct. 1, 2017. The Palestinian prime minister is set to lead a large delegation of Fatah officials traveling from the West Bank to Gaza on Monday in the most ambitious attempt to reconcile with the rival Hamas militant group after a 10-year rift that has left the Palestinians divided between two governments. Logo in Arabic reads, " the ministry of the interior and national security." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A Palestinian Fatah member receives greetings after being released from a Hamas jail in front of the interior ministry, in Gaza City, Sunday Oct. 1, 2017. The Palestinian prime minister is set to lead a large delegation of Fatah officials traveling from the West Bank to Gaza on Monday in the most ambitious attempt to reconcile with the rival Hamas militant group after a 10-year rift that has left the Palestinians divided between two governments. Logo in Arabic reads, " the ministry of the interior and national security." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) A Palestinian Fatah member receives greetings after being released from a Hamas jail in front of the interior ministry, in Gaza City, Sunday Oct. 1, 2017. The Palestinian prime minister is set to lead a large delegation of Fatah officials traveling from the West Bank to Gaza on Monday in the most ambitious attempt to reconcile with the rival Hamas militant group after a 10-year rift that has left the Palestinians divided between two governments. Logo in Arabic reads, " the ministry of the interior and national security." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

By Associated Press 2 min read

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) – The Latest on the ambitious Palestinian reconciliation effort underway as rival factions meet in Gaza (all times local):

1:50 p.m.

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has opened his trip to the Gaza Strip for meetings with rival faction with a message of reconciliation.

Minutes after entering the coastal territory, Hamdallah told a crowd of Fatah and Hamas officials that “the only way to statehood is through unity.”

Hamdallah is leading a delegation from the West Bank to Gaza on Monday in the most ambitious attempt at reconciliation between the rival Palestinian factions since Hamas seized control of Gaza a decade ago.