The Hamas terror group criticizes the “unilateral” designation by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of an ally and leading business figure as prime minister with a mandate to help reform the PA and rebuild Gaza.
Mohammad Mustafa’s appointment comes after mounting pressure to overhaul the governing body and improve governance in the West Bank where it is based.
Hamas says the decision was taken without consulting it, despite recently taking part in a meeting in Moscow also attended by Abbas’s Fatah movement to end long-time divisions weakening Palestinian political aspirations.
“We express our rejection of continuing this approach that has inflicted and continues to inflict harm on our people and our national cause,” Hamas says in a statement.
“Making individual decisions and engaging in superficial and empty steps such as forming a new government without national consensus only reinforces a policy of unilateralism and deepens division.”
At a time of war with Israel, Palestinians needed a unified leadership preparing for free democratic elections involving all components of their society, it adds.
Hamas says any attempt to exclude it from the political scene after the war was “delusional”.
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