Hamas has agreed to dissolve the administration that runs Gaza, it said
on Sunday, a major step towards handing control of the enclave to a
Palestinian unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with
President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007, said it had taken “a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee” that runs the territory of 2 million people, and hand power to some form of unity government.
Reunification a decade after Hamas and Abbas’s secular Fatah movement battled for control of Gaza may hinge on whether complex issues related to power-sharing - which stymied reconciliation bids in the past - can be resolved.
Abbas welcomed Hamas’ move - a result of talks mediated by Egypt - and said he would convene the Palestinian leadership for discussions upon his return from New York where he was attending the U.N. General Assembly.
The development would “enable the formation of a national reconciliation government to work in the Gaza Strip and hold ... elections,” he said in a statement on official news agency WAFA.
Read more: Hamas says ready to hand Gaza to a Palestinian unity government
The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007, said it had taken “a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee” that runs the territory of 2 million people, and hand power to some form of unity government.
Reunification a decade after Hamas and Abbas’s secular Fatah movement battled for control of Gaza may hinge on whether complex issues related to power-sharing - which stymied reconciliation bids in the past - can be resolved.
Abbas welcomed Hamas’ move - a result of talks mediated by Egypt - and said he would convene the Palestinian leadership for discussions upon his return from New York where he was attending the U.N. General Assembly.
The development would “enable the formation of a national reconciliation government to work in the Gaza Strip and hold ... elections,” he said in a statement on official news agency WAFA.
Read more: Hamas says ready to hand Gaza to a Palestinian unity government
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