Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is expected to mediate talks in Cairo Wednesday between the leaders of Fatah and Hamas to help implement a unity pact signed in 2011. Egypt helped broker the deal aimed at ending the split between Fatah in the West Bank and Iran-backed Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah in a bloody 2007 takeover that saw hundreds of Palestinians killed. The reconciliation accord signed two years ago was meant to pave the way for a joint interim government and joint elections in 2012, but negotiations stalled and Hamas boycotted last year’s local elections held in the West Bank and refused to allow elections in Gaza. Recently both sides showed a warming of relations when each allowed the other to hold political rallies on their territories. Analysts fear that the terms of a reconciliation between the two will ultimately pave the way for Hamas to seize control of the West Bank.