Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Al-Hamdallah has tendered his resignation and that of his unity government to President Mahmoud Abbas, dealing a blow to faltering reconciliation efforts with Gaza’s Islamist Hamas rulers.
The government will continue to carry out its duties until a new one is formed, it said in a statement issued after a weekly cabinet meeting.
There was no immediate comment from Abbas, but his Fatah faction, at a meeting he chaired two days ago, recommended that the government be replaced.
A Hamas official condemned the move as an attempt to marginalise and exclude the group from Palestinian politics.
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