A planned handover of power in Gaza from Hamas to the Palestinian Authority under a landmark reconciliation accord hit “obstacles” on Sunday’s deadline to do so, a top official says
Hamas was originally due to transfer power in the enclave on December 1 under the reconciliation agreement with rival faction Fatah, but that deadline was initially put back by 10 days.
Hamas said at the weekend that it was handing over all government ministries to the Palestinian Authority, but Fatah’s top negotiator says that is not yet the case.
“There have been obstacles today,” Azzam al-Ahmad says in a statement on Sunday published on official news agency WAFA. “I hope they will be resolved before this evening so our people will feel that their national factions are honest with what they agreed on and pledged.”
Ahmad says that after the handover takes place, a meeting would be held in Cairo — Egypt mediated the reconciliation deal — to discuss next steps.
— AFP
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