Jerusalem, Feb. 9 : A Palestinian poll conducted after Operation Cast Lead has found that 56 percent of Gaza residents and 48.3 percent Palestinians living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem believe that Hamas is leading them in the wrong direction.

The poll, conducted by the Beit Sahour-based Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found that Fatah's popularity against Hamas has risen, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Gaza City - Palestinian medical staff said Monday that the Israeli military killed a Palestinian youth in the northern Gaza Strip.

They said they picked up the body of Khaled al-Kafarana, 22, from an area near the border between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun.

Al-Kafarana was killed by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter overnight, as he apparently tried to infiltrate into Israeli territory.

Israeli aircraft also struck a police station of the Hamas administration in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.

Cairo  - Palestinian and Egyptian sources on Sunday indicated that Hamas may present a unified, final negotiating position on a long-term truce in Gaza as soon as Monday, local media reported.

But even as Hamas reportedly moved closer to accepting a truce, Palestinian militants fired a rocket at southern Israel, damaging cars but causing no casualties, Israeli military officials said.

A delegation of Hamas leaders from Gaza led my Mahmoud al-Zahar was due in Damascus Sunday for consultations with leaders in exile there.

Ankara - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed for the quick dispatch of aid to people suffering in the Gaza Strip saying that Israel was holding up the vast majority of aid sent to the region.

Speaking after talks in Ankara with President Abdullah Gul, Abbas asked rhetorically what will the world do if Israel refuses to allow aid into the devastated region.

"We want the Palestinian people to be allowed to live an honourable way, just like the rest of the world," Abbas said with Gul agreeing.

Gaza - Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader, emerged for the first time in public Saturday since the beginning of Israeli onslaught in December, heading a Hamas delegation for ceasefire talks in Cairo.

The four-person delegation crossed into Egypt this afternoon through Rafah terminal on Gaza-Egypt border.

Earlier on the day, the Hamas movement said talks to broker a ceasefire agreement with Israel had not failed, adding it will send a delegation to Egypt to talk more on the issue.

Ramallah - The Palestinian Authority's health ministry on Saturday accused the militant movement Hamas of turning some of its medical facilities in the Gaza Strip into detention centres.

After Israel stopped 23 days of aerial and ground attacks in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip last month, "Hamas unfortunately used several facilities, mainly a large number of hospitals, as stations for summons, interrogation, torture and detention," the Ramallah-based ministry said in a statement.