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Abbas: No reconciliation with Hamas before elections"[...] Hamas and Fatah jointly appointed a unity technocrat government in June, ostensibly ending seven years of political strife. According to the reconciliation agreement, the government was tasked with preparing for nationwide elections within six month, a timetable delayed by the Gaza operation.
But Abbas had a falling out with Hamas over the summer, when two members of the movement abducted and killed three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, sparking a powerful Israeli crackdown throughout the PA-held territories. At the same time, Israeli intelligence revealed information pointing at a Hamas plot to overthrow Abbas and instigate a third intifada, or violent uprising, in the West Bank.
In his message to the media, Abbas asserted that the Palestinian government would take full control of Gaza reconstruction money, and that “no faction or party has the right to receive these funds,” a clear allusion to Hamas’s ambitions to reap the political benefits of reconstruction.
“The international community and the donor states have high confidence in the performance of the Palestinian Authority,” he said.
ِAbbas’s comments were received with rage by Hamas. Salah Bardawil, a Hamas official in Gaza, said that the Palestinian president was clearly “not serious” about the need for national reconciliation.
“What about the Cairo and Gaza agreements and the unity government that visited Gaza just days ago?” mused Bardawil in an interview with Hamas daily Al-Resalah on Monday. “Is this not reconciliation?”
According to Al-Resalah, Abbas told journalists in Cairo that “there is no future for a country where more than half the people are militiamen, a situation that will never change without elections.”
Bardawil said that Abbas’s statements “destroyed everything previously agreed upon” and “poisoned the atmosphere of reconciliation.”"