{"id":30892,"date":"2019-01-28T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30892"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:22:47","slug":"palestinian-pm-willing-to-quit-if-president-abbas-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30892","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian PM willing to quit if president Abbas wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1443156\/middle-east\" readability=\"42\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday offered to resign, his spokesman said, amid efforts by president Mahmud Abbas to form a new government.<br \/>Such bids are seen as part of attempts by Abbas to further isolate his political rivals Hamas amid a deepening of a decade-long split in Palestinian politics.<br \/>Hamdallah has \u201cput his government at the disposal of President Mahmud Abbas,\u201d the prime minister\u2019s spokesman Yussef Al-Mahmud said in a statement.<br \/>It came after the central committee of Abbas\u2019s Fatah movement recommended late Sunday the formation of a new government that would comprise members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).<br \/>Hamdallah\u2019s West Bank-based government welcomed plans for a new government, his spokesman said.<br \/>The Islamist movement Hamas is not part of the PLO.<br \/>It seized control of Gaza from Abbas\u2019s forces in a 2007 near civil war, a year after winning parliamentary elections.<br \/>Since then Abbas\u2019s governments have maintained limited self rule in the occupied West Bank, but the split between the two has remained.<br \/>In June 2014 Hamdallah formed what was labelled a national unity government after a landmark reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas.<br \/>The deal has since broken down and the government has no control in Hamas-controlled Gaza.<br \/>Abbas was elected in 2005 for an initial four-year term but no elections have been held since then due to the Fatah-Hamas split.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday offered to resign, his spokesman said, amid efforts by president Mahmud Abbas to form a new government.Such bids are seen as part of attempts by Abbas to further isolate his political rivals Hamas amid a deepening of a decade-long split in Palestinian politics.Hamdallah has \u201cput&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}