RAMALLAH/GAZA CITY: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal will meet in Qatar Sunday for talks on the formation of a government, Fatah party spokesman Azzam al-Ahmad told AFP Friday.

Abbas and Meshaal “will discuss forming a government and political questions after the failure of talks” with Israel, Ahmad said.

A meeting bringing together all Palestinian leaders in Cairo originally set for Feb. 2 had been delayed indefinitely, Ahmad added.

Sunday’s talks will address “reconciliation measures” as well as the planned Cairo meeting, he said.

The head of the Hamas government in Gaza and Meshaal rival Ismail Haniyeh is currently in Qatar on the first leg of a regional tour.

Meshaal has decided not to run again this summer for the leadership of the Hamas movement amid signs of strain within the Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip.

Under the terms of a reconciliation deal signed by Hamas and Abbas’s secular Fatah movement last April, parliamentary and presidential elections are to be held by May.

However, implementation of the deal has been delayed on several occasions despite repeated meetings between the parties involved.

Also Friday, two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were wounded by Israeli airstrikes, Palestinians said, only hours after a visit of the U.N. chief to the Hamas-controlled territory.

According to a spokesman for Gaza emergency services, a 3-and-a-half-year-old girl was seriously wounded in her home in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiyaby while a man was moderately wounded.

Five other attacks in the central and southern Gaza Strip targeted tunnels and fields, as well as another house in Jabalya in the northern Strip.

The Israeli military confirmed the attacks, which “targeted two weapon storing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, three terror tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip and a weapon manufacturing facility in the central Gaza Strip,” a statement read.

“Direct hits were confirmed as well as secondary explosions at several targets,” it added.

“These sites were targeted in response to the rocket fire on communities in southern Israel,” it added.

Palestinian militants fired eight rockets Wednesday night into southern Israel from Gaza, all of which hit open fields and caused no damage.