Israel PM: No Palestinian unity at Israel's 'expense'

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against any "bogus" unity bid that would threaten his country if Hamas is allowed to keep its guns.

While previous reconciliation attempts have failed, years of global isolation and steadily worsening conditions in Gaza have pushed Hamas toward compromise.

In September, Hamas has come to accept the return of the Authority under the pressure of the big neighbouring egypt, disappointments diplomatic of his ally of qatar and a severe turn of the screw given financial by the president of the Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

Gaza: Prime Minister Rami Al Hamdallah chaired the first meeting of the Palestinian cabinet in the Gaza Strip for three years on Tuesday, in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas. During a visit to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip in August, Greenblatt said that "it is clear that the Palestinian Authority must renew its role in managing the Gaza Strip, because Hamas has severely harmed the residents and failed to meet their most basic needs".

"We are here to turn the page on division, restore the national project to its correct direction and establish the [Palestinian] state", he said.

"The government does not have a magic wand", he told reporters. Egypt is overseeing the effort to bring the two factions together and the parties are scheduled to hold talks in Cairo next week on the details of the unity bid.

He also said the reconciliation will require "hard efforts, time, patience, and wisdom". His ministers are expected to begin taking over government ministries Tuesday, with negotiations in Cairo on more hard issues in the coming weeks.

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Mussa Abu Marzuk, one of the most senior Hamas leaders living in exile outside Gaza, said the key to reaching a deal with Fatah was the recognition that it was pointless to demand that Hamas disarm because it would never agree to such terms.

Abbas has unsuccessfully tried numerous times to fix the rift with Hamas and rebut Israeli assertions that peace negotiations are pointless because he controls only the West Bank and can not ensure that any peace treaty will also hold in Gaza.

Speaking in East Jerusalem where he met Palestinian civil society leaders and religious scholars, Yıldız praised the "positive stance" of the Hamas and Fatah leadership and said they hoped it would be "of great benefit for the Palestinian cause".

Hamdallah said the Authority would take over the Strip's day-to-day governance as well as "security responsibilities". He can be expected to make haste slowly - and to blame Hamas if a reconciliation deal fails to materialize.

Both Israel and the United States have classified Hamas as a terrorist organization.

Mr Abbas said "differences remain" with Hamas.

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