{"id":31078,"date":"2019-01-29T22:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31078"},"modified":"2019-01-29T22:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T22:23:33","slug":"palestinian-president-abbas-accepts-pm-hamdallahs-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31078","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian President Abbas accepts PM Hamdallah’s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas<\/a> has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his cabinet, according to the official news agency Wafa, in a move seen as a bid by Abbas to strengthen his position as a decade-old political split deepens.<\/p>\n

Hamdallah was later appointed caretaker prime minister by Abbas until a new cabinet is formed.<\/p>\n

Replacing Hamdallah after five years is seen by analysts to be part of Abbas’ efforts to further isolate his political rival Hamas<\/a>, which governs the Gaza Strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, Hamdallah announced submitting the resignation of his cabinet, following a recommendation by the Central Committee of Fatah<\/a> group, in order to form a new government from the factions of the Palestine Liberation Organisation<\/a> and independent figures.<\/p>\n

Fatah justified the move with the “intransigence of Hamas and its refusal to deal with the government of national reconciliation”. But a Hamas official condemned it as an attempt to marginalise and exclude the group from Palestinian politics.<\/p>\n

Hamas and Fatah have been at odds since the former gained control of the Gaza Strip in 2007. Since then Abbas’ governments have maintained limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank<\/a>, while Hamas has led a rival government in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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The two groups signed a reconciliation deal two years ago which set in motion a plan for Abbas’ Palestinian Authority to resume governing in Gaza and take control of the coastal enclave’s crossing points into Egypt <\/a>and Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But disputes over power-sharing and policy towards Israel have hampered the deal’s implementation.<\/p>\n

“The president will begin consultation to form a political government made up by factions of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) that will prepare for the holding of new parliamentary election,” Abbas said.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how the change of government could impact on policy. Abbas remains the primary decision maker and interlocutor with the international community.<\/p>\n

Since September 2013, Hamdallah chaired the government, commissioned by Abbas, and in February 2014 the former formed the government of national reconciliation with understanding between all Palestinian factions.<\/p>\n

The division between the Palestinian parties is seen as a key issue preventing progress in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict <\/a>and improving the situation in the impoverished enclave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his cabinet, according to the official news agency Wafa, in a move seen as a bid by Abbas to strengthen his position as a decade-old political split deepens. Hamdallah was later appointed caretaker prime minister by Abbas until a new cabinet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31078","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\/31078","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=31078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}