Some opinion
polls have shown that if parliamentary elections were held today,
Hamas would win both in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
In a bid for
national unity among Palestinians, Hamas has decided to dissolve its
administrative committee in Gaza and expressed its awillingness to
hold general elections.
Faced with
repeated Israeli military attacks and systemic occupation of their
land, Hamas aims to foster dialogue with Fatah and consolidate
Palestinian unity.
Hamas
released a statement saying that the group “invites the
consensus government to come to Gaza to practice its mission and
carry out its duties in the Gaza Strip immediately, and it accepts
the holding of general elections." It also noted that the
group agreed to key conditions outlined by Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah, who considered the Hamas government a
parallel government.
The Islamist
group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in
2007, said it had taken “a courageous, serious and patriotic
decision to dissolve the administrative committee” that runs
the territory of two million people, and hand power to some form of
unity government.
The
development would “enable the formation of a national
reconciliation government to work in the Gaza Strip and hold ...
elections,” Abbas said in a statement on official news agency
WAFA.
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