GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian government will meet in Gaza next week to begin taking administrative control of the enclave from Hamas, a statement said, part of efforts to end protracted rivalry between the Islamist group and President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007 with Abbas's Fatah movement, said last week it had disbanded its shadow government and invited representatives of his West-Bank based administration - formally a unity government created in 2014 - to take up posts in the coastal enclave.