Egypt rebuffed the request to review its latest Palestinian unity proposal, a Palestinian official said on Tuesday.
The request was made by independent Palestinian officials in a bid to revive the Egyptian initiative after the Gaza Strip-ruling Islamic Hamas
movement said it can not accept the offer without some changes.
"The Egyptian leadership rejected to open the proposal for discussions on the controversial points," said Yasser al-Wadeya, head of the
independents' delegation to Cairo dialogue.
President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, Hamas' bitter rival, has accepted the proposal which aims at ending internal schism in the Palestinian territories and restore political ties to the Gaza Strip and the Fatah-ruled West Bank.
But al-Wadeya said that Egypt has promised to consider the reservations of "some of the Palestinian factions" after they accept the proposal and start implementing it, referring to Hamas.
Hamas' concerns include the reform of the security services, elections and the upgrading of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).