Egypt airport authorities on Tuesday deported a high-ranking member of the central committee of Abbas's Fatah movement Jibril al-Rajoub, apparently in response to Palestinian authority's arrest of supporters loyal to former Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan. He held a conference for his fellow Fatah members in the state-owned al-Masah Hotel last month to discuss the future of reforming the movement. Since the rift, Abbas has taken a series of steps to block Dahlan’s possible return to a West Bank leadership position. "My relationship with the people and the political system in Egypt is historical, and I am not Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Ahan to be banned from entering Egypt. Monir al-Jaghoub, a Fatah official in the West Bank, said on his Facebook page that after learning Rajoub had been refused entry to the country on the orders of the Egyptian intelligence services, the Palestinian delegation withdrew from the event.

Source: Egypt Independent March 01, 2017 12:44 UTC