Hamas and Fatah say agree on Palestinian national unity gov't


  • World
  • Tuesday, 27 May 2014

GAZA (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed on the make-up of a national unity government on Tuesday in the most significant step yet toward healing their seven-year rift.

The two groups said they had decided on a list of independent, technocrat ministers who will run the government pending elections in at least six months - moves they hope will revive institutions paralysed since the parties fought a brief civil war in 2007.

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