{"id":31052,"date":"2019-01-29T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31052"},"modified":"2019-01-29T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:24:34","slug":"palestinian-prime-minister-tenders-resignation-government-to-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31052","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian prime minister tenders resignation, government to Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1443831\/middle-east\" readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH, West Bank:\u00a0The Palestinian government officially submitted its resignation to president Mahmud Abbas Tuesday, a statement said, though it will remain in place while a new administration is formed.<br \/>Analysts see the change in government as an attempt by Abbas to strengthen his position and further isolate his political rivals Hamas as a decade-long split in Palestinian politics deepens.<br \/>&#8220;The government of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah submitted on Tuesday its resignation to President Mahmud Abbas,&#8221; official news agency Wafa said in English following a cabinet meeting.<br \/>The government &#8220;will continue to serve our people wherever they are and shoulder all its responsibilities until a new government is formed,&#8221; it added.<br \/>Hamdallah had offered to resign Monday, after the central committee of Abbas&#8217;s Fatah movement recommended the formation of a new government that would comprise members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).<br \/>The Islamist movement Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, is not part of the PLO.<br \/>Hamas condemned the government&#8217;s resignation, saying Abbas was seeking to establish a &#8220;separatist government&#8221; to serve his interests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, West Bank:\u00a0The Palestinian government officially submitted its resignation to president Mahmud Abbas Tuesday, a statement said, though it will remain in place while a new administration is formed.Analysts see the change in government as an attempt by Abbas to strengthen his position and further isolate his political rivals Hamas as a decade-long split in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31052","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\/31052","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=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}