The Doomed Palestinian Reconciliation Plan
Hamas is trying to make life harder for Fatah, but it’s those living in the Gaza Strip who will suffer the consequences.
by Grant Rumley
Sep 17, 2017
4 minutes
Of the demands Palestinians often make of their leaders, reconciliation between their two largest political factions perennially tops the list. Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, and the Islamist terror group Hamas, which wrested control of the Gaza Strip in a civil war in 2007, have waged a low-intensity conflict for over a decade. Between flare-ups, the two have often responded to the will of their people by announcing various unity agreements. None of these agreements have led to actual national harmony, and Sunday’s surprise that Hamas had dissolved its administrative committee in Gaza and
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