Word: haniyah
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...professor's acquaintance with virulent strains of bacteria may prove useful in dealing with warring Palestinian organisms - notably the Fatah movement led by President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist miitants of outgoing Prime Minister Ismael Haniyah's Hamas, who has recently as weeks ago were on the verge of open civil war. All that changed after the Israeli forces sliced into Gaza last month in an effort to stop militants launching homemade rockets at Israel. The incursion forced Hamas and Fatah gunmen who had been eyeing each other warily on Gaza street corners to once again confront a common enemy...
...Even as Hamas and Fatah gunmen ready for a showdown on the empty streets of the Gaza Strip, leaders of both factions told TIME they are trying to broker a compromise, one that could lead to a power-sharing agreement between Abbas and the Hamas-backed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah. Atef Ibrahim Adawn, a long-time Hamas member who is now Minister for Refugee Affairs, told TIME that within the next few days, both sides may announce an accord on a joint peace proposal that could eventually lead to a new "national unity government" made up of technocrats in which...
...Once it was smuggled out, the plan found a champion in Abbas, who wants the Palestinians to vote on it in a late July referendum. Hamas, along with four other Palestinian groups, opposes the referendum. Hamas Prime Minister Ismael Haniyah warned that his government "will not make political concessions" to Israel and opposes the vote as a waste of money. If Hamas and Abbas can indeed now come to an agreement on the prisoners' proposal, that would end the need for a referendum - and the dispute over it. Until then, however, the political showdown is fanning the anger...
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