Reports of a stormy meeting between Abbas and Meshaal in Doha

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reported to have angrily confronted Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Qatar yesterday.

A senior Palestinian source told the Times of Israel that the two had a "difficult" conversation in Doha.

"The source says that Abbas castigated Hamas to Mashaal and called his people “liars,” after the Shin Bet said that captured Hamas operatives had confessed to a plot to attack PA forces in the West Bank and even stage a “coup” there," the paper reported, adding that "Abbas also informed Mashaal that Hamas would have to choose between unity with Abbas’s Fatah movement and a permanent “divorce"."