Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed to hold elections next May and are due to establish a caretaker government in the coming weeks which will exclude Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Palestinian sources said Tuesday.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad signaled on Monday he is ready to step aside to help reconcile the two rival factions of the Palestinian national movement and pave the way for presidential and parliamentary elections.
Palestinians want the Security Council to decide on their bid for full U.N. membership soon so they can pursue \”other options\”, the Palestinian U.N. envoy said, repeating charges that Washington is procrastinating to avoid a vote.
A would-be Palestinian suicide bomber freed by Israel in the prisoner swap for soldier Gilad Shalit told cheering schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip the day after her release Wednesday she hoped they would follow her example.
The Palestinian leadership officially decided to go ahead with plans to ask the United Nations for recognition as an independent state.
Palestinians said on Tuesday they were ready to form a unity government and expected to unveil its new cabinet at a meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Cairo next week.
The Hamas-Fatah reconciliation appeared to be in jeopardy after Hamas rejected Fatah\’s nominee for prime minister, Salam Fayyad.
Israel will not negotiate with a \”Palestinian version of Al-Qaida\”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday.
The National Jewish Democratic Council counseled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to use the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation to back down from peacemaking.
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