Palestinian Prime Minister Visits Gaza in Move to Reconcile with Hamas

From

3 October 2017 11:08 WIB

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (L) shakes hands with Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City October 2, 2017. The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas, a decade after the Islamist group seized the territory in a civil war. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

3 Oktober 2017 00:00 WIB

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves upon his arrival with his government ministers to take control of Gaza from the Islamist Hamas group, in the northern Gaza Strip October 2, 2017. Rami al-Hamdallah said at a welcome ceremony his unity government would begin assuming control of Gaza's administrative affairs, as well as "security responsibilities and responsibility for crossings and borders". REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

3 Oktober 2017 00:00 WIB

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves as he visits the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City October 2, 2017. Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel and the West, made its dramatic step towards unity last month, disbanding its Gaza shadow government, after Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates imposed an economic boycott on its main donor, Qatar, over alleged support of terrorism. Qatar denies the allegation. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

3 Oktober 2017 00:00 WIB

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (L) shakes hands with Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City October 2, 2017. Under previous understandings, some 3,000 Fatah security men would be integrated gradually into a Gaza police force overseen by an Interior Ministry headed by Hamdallah. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

3 Oktober 2017 00:00 WIB

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (R) sits next to Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City October 2, 2017. That deployment would still leave Hamas's armed wing -- analysts say it has at least 25,000 well-equipped fighters -- the dominant power in the Palestinian enclave of 2 million people REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

3 Oktober 2017 00:00 WIB

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (R) and Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh hold hands in Gaza City October 2, 2017. The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas, a decade after the Islamist group seized the territory in a civil war. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

3 Oktober 2017 00:00 WIB