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href="#Involvement_of_US,_Israel_and_Arab_states"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Involvement of US, Israel and Arab states</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Involvement_of_US,_Israel_and_Arab_states-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Timeline" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Timeline"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Timeline</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Timeline-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Timeline subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Timeline-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-March_2006_to_December_2006:_rise_of_tensions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#March_2006_to_December_2006:_rise_of_tensions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>March 2006 to December 2006: rise of tensions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-March_2006_to_December_2006:_rise_of_tensions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-December_2006_to_January_2007" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#December_2006_to_January_2007"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>December 2006 to January 2007</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-December_2006_to_January_2007-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-February_to_April_2007" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#February_to_April_2007"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>February to April 2007</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-February_to_April_2007-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-May_2007" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#May_2007"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>May 2007</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-May_2007-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-June_2007:_split_of_government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#June_2007:_split_of_government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>June 2007: split of government</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-June_2007:_split_of_government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-West_Bank_clashes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#West_Bank_clashes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>West Bank clashes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-West_Bank_clashes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-October_2007_to_January_2008:_renewed_clashes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#October_2007_to_January_2008:_renewed_clashes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>October 2007 to January 2008: renewed clashes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-October_2007_to_January_2008:_renewed_clashes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2008_Sana'a_declaration" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2008_Sana'a_declaration"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>2008 Sana'a declaration</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2008_Sana'a_declaration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2009_political_violence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2009_political_violence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>2009 political violence</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2009_political_violence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2010_to_present:_tensions_and_reconciliation_attempts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2010_to_present:_tensions_and_reconciliation_attempts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10</span> <span>2010 to present: tensions and reconciliation attempts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010_to_present:_tensions_and_reconciliation_attempts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-During_the_Arab_Spring" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#During_the_Arab_Spring"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10.1</span> <span>During the Arab Spring</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-During_the_Arab_Spring-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2021_elections_failure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2021_elections_failure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10.2</span> <span>2021 elections failure</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2021_elections_failure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gaza_war_(2023–present)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gaza_war_(2023–present)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10.3</span> <span>Gaza war (2023–present)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gaza_war_(2023–present)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C" title="فلسطین ایچ ساواشی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="فلسطین ایچ ساواشی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah-Hamas_konflikten_2006-07" title="Fatah-Hamas konflikten 2006-07 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Fatah-Hamas konflikten 2006-07" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah-Hamas-Konflikt" title="Fatah-Hamas-Konflikt – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Fatah-Hamas-Konflikt" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%8D%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%A6%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%87-%CE%A7%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%82" title="Σύγκρουση Φατάχ-Χαμάς – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σύγκρουση Φατάχ-Χαμάς" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicto_Fatah-Ham%C3%A1s" title="Conflicto Fatah-Hamás – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Conflicto Fatah-Hamás" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah-Hamas_gatazka" title="Fatah-Hamas gatazka – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Fatah-Hamas gatazka" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AD_%D9%88_%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="درگیری فتح و حماس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="درگیری فتح و حماس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflit_Fatah-Hamas" title="Conflit Fatah-Hamas – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Conflit Fatah-Hamas" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konflik_Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas" title="Konflik Fatah–Hamas – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Konflik Fatah–Hamas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflitto_tra_Fatah_e_Hamas" title="Conflitto tra Fatah e Hamas – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Conflitto tra Fatah e Hamas" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1%E2%80%93%D7%A4%D7%AA%22%D7%97_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%AA_%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%94" title="עימות חמאס–פת"ח ברצועת עזה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="עימות חמאס–פת"ח ברצועת עזה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Ham%C3%A1sz-konfliktus" title="Fatah–Hamász-konfliktus – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Fatah–Hamász-konfliktus" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%85%E2%80%93%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Судир Фатах–Хамас – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Судир Фатах–Хамас" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89" title="الانقسام الفلسطينى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الانقسام الفلسطينى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%87%E2%80%8C%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D9%86%DA%AF" title="فلسطین دله‌یی جنگ – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="فلسطین دله‌یی جنگ" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konflik_Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas" title="Konflik Fatah–Hamas – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Konflik Fatah–Hamas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestijnse_Burgeroorlog" title="Palestijnse Burgeroorlog – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Palestijnse Burgeroorlog" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a 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style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Fatah–Hamas conflict</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Part of <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_internal_political_violence" title="Palestinian internal political violence">Palestinian internal political violence</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Gaza_Strip_map2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Gaza_Strip_map2.svg/260px-Gaza_Strip_map2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Gaza_Strip_map2.svg/390px-Gaza_Strip_map2.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_reconciliation_process" title="Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process">reconciliation process</a>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip</a></li> <li>New Palestinian government in the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>, appointed by <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a></li> <li>Reconciliation agreement signed May 2011</li> <li>Doha agreement signed 2012</li> <li>Renewed political crisis in March–April 2012<sup id="cite_ref-aa0104_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aa0104-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Strong increase of tensions in 2013<sup id="cite_ref-JP_140713_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP_140713-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JP_020913_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP_020913-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-What_reconciliation_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What_reconciliation-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hamas and Fatah sign reconciliation deal in April 2014<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Unity government sworn in during June 2014<sup id="cite_ref-bbc2June_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc2June-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Implementation of unity government control in Gaza due date</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td 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title="Palestinian Authority">Palestinian Authority</a></li> <li><span class="plainlinks"></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Infobox_al-Aqsa.png/12px-Infobox_al-Aqsa.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Infobox_al-Aqsa.png 1.5x" data-file-width="14" data-file-height="19" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Martyrs%27_Brigades" title="Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades">Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades</a> (until 2007)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><b>Supported by:</b></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (alleged)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (covert)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders and leaders</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/23px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/35px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/46px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh" title="Ismail Haniyeh">Ismail Haniyeh</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/23px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/35px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/46px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Khaled_Mashal" title="Khaled Mashal">Khaled Mashal</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/23px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/35px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/46px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Deif" title="Mohammed Deif">Mohammed Deif</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/23px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/35px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/46px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar" title="Yahya Sinwar">Yahya Sinwar</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/23px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/35px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg/46px-Flag_of_al-Qassam_Brigades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Sinwar" title="Mohammed Sinwar">Mohammed Sinwar</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span class="plainlinks"></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah"><img alt="Fatah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg/23px-Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg/35px-Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg/46px-Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="716" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a><br /><span class="plainlinks"></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah"><img alt="Fatah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg/23px-Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg/35px-Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg/46px-Simplified_Fatah_flag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="716" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Dahlan" title="Mohammed Dahlan">Mohammed Dahlan</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Strength</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <b><a href="/wiki/Al-Qassam_Brigades" title="Al-Qassam Brigades">Al-Qassam Brigades</a>:</b> 15,000<br /> <b>Executive Police Force:</b> 6,000<sup id="cite_ref-Ynet:_Religious_war_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ynet:_Religious_war-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-latimes_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <b>National Security:</b> 30,000<br /><b><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Preventive_Security" title="Palestinian Preventive Security">Palestinian Preventive Security</a>:</b> 30,000<br /><b>General Intelligence:</b> 5,000<br /><b><a href="/wiki/Force_17" title="Force 17">Presidential Guard</a>:</b> 4,200<br /> <b><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Martyrs%27_Brigades" title="Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades">Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades</a>:</b> Several thousand<sup id="cite_ref-Ynet:_Religious_war_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ynet:_Religious_war-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-latimes_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" 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of Gaza (2007)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Hamas_political_violence_in_Gaza" title="2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza">2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Gaza_economic_protests" title="2019 Gaza economic protests">2019 Gaza economic protests</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Politics and Diplomacy</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Palestinian_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Palestinian elections">Cancelled Palestinian elections (2006-2021) </a></li></ul> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_reconciliation_process" title="Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process">Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process</a></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_Doha_Agreement" title="Fatah–Hamas Doha Agreement">Fatah–Hamas Doha Agreement</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Unity governments</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Third_Hamdallah_Government" title="Third Hamdallah Government">Third Hamdallah Government</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Related topics</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Divide_and_rule#Hamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Divide and rule">Israeli strategy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Joint_Operations_Room" title="Palestinian Joint Operations Room">Alliance of nationalist factions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_nationalism" title="Palestinian nationalism">Palestinian nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip">Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div> <p>The <b>Fatah–Hamas conflict</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">النزاع بين فتح وحماس</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">an-Nizāʿ bayna Fataḥ wa-Ḥamās</i></span>) is an ongoing political and strategic conflict between <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the two main Palestinian political parties in the Palestinian territories, leading to the <a href="/wiki/Hamas_takeover_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip">Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip</a> in June 2007. The <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_reconciliation_process" title="Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process">reconciliation process</a> and unification of Hamas and Fatah administrations remains unfinalized and the situation is deemed a <a href="/wiki/Frozen_conflict" title="Frozen conflict">frozen conflict</a>. </p><p>The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights has found that over 600 Palestinians were killed in the fighting from January 2006 to May 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dozens more were killed or executed in the following years as part of the conflict. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div> <p>Hamas was founded in 1987,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> soon after the <a href="/wiki/First_Intifada" title="First Intifada">First Intifada</a> broke out, as an offshoot of the Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood" title="Muslim Brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-crs1993_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crs1993-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian Territories">Palestinian</a> <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a>-<a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamist</a> fundamentalist organization,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is regarded, either in whole or in part, as a <a href="/wiki/Terrorist_organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist organization">terrorist organization</a> by <a href="/wiki/International_positions_on_the_nature_of_Hamas" class="mw-redirect" title="International positions on the nature of Hamas">several countries and international organizations</a>, including by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, Paraguay, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tensions between Fatah and Hamas began to rise in 2005 after the death of <a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a> in November 2004. After the <a href="/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election" title="2006 Palestinian legislative election">legislative election on 25 January 2006</a>, which resulted in a Hamas victory, relations were marked by sporadic factional fighting. This became more intense after the two parties repeatedly failed to reach a deal to share government power, escalating in June 2007 and resulting in <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Hamas' takeover of Gaza</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A major issue was control over the border crossings, especially the <a href="/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing" title="Rafah Border Crossing">Rafah Border Crossing</a>. </p><p>Hamas leader <a href="/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh" title="Ismail Haniyeh">Ismail Haniyeh</a> formed a <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_government_of_March_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian government of March 2006">new PA government</a> on 29 March 2006 comprising mostly Hamas members. Fatah and other factions had refused to join, especially as Hamas refused to accept the Quartet's conditions, such as recognition of Israel and earlier agreements. As a result, a substantial part of the international community, especially Israel, the United States and European Union countries, refused to deal with the Hamas government and imposed sanctions. Following the abduction by Hamas militants of <a href="/wiki/Gilad_Shalit" title="Gilad Shalit">Gilad Shalit</a> on 25 June 2006 in a cross-border raid via a tunnel out of Gaza, Israel detained nearly a quarter of PLC members and ministers on the West Bank during August 2006, intensified the boycott of Gaza and took other punitive measures.<sup id="cite_ref-Addameer_PLC_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Addameer_PLC-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Calls for the implementation of the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Cairo_Declaration" title="Palestinian Cairo Declaration">Cairo Declaration</a>, including the formation of a unity government and the cessation of violence between Fatah and Hamas, were made in the <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_Mecca_Agreement" title="Fatah–Hamas Mecca Agreement">Fatah–Hamas Mecca Agreement</a> of 8 February 2007. The Hamas government was replaced on 17 March 2007 by a <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Unity_Government_of_March_2007" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Unity Government of March 2007">national unity government</a> headed by Haniyeh comprising Hamas and Fatah ministers. In June 2007, Hamas fighters <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">took control of the Gaza Strip</a> and removed all Fatah officials.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> President Abbas, on 14 June, declared a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a>, dismissed Haniyeh's national unity government and appointed <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Governments_of_June%E2%80%93July_2007" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian Authority Governments of June–July 2007">an emergency government</a>, and suspended articles of the Basic Law to circumvent the needed PNC approval.<sup id="cite_ref-jmcc_presidential_decrees_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jmcc_presidential_decrees-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fox_disolve_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fox_disolve-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_dissolve_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph_dissolve-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc_dissolve_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_dissolve-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hamas has been the <i>de facto</i> governing authority of the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> since its takeover in June 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-Davis_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davis-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since then, it has fought several <a href="/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict" title="Gaza–Israel conflict">wars with Israel</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Palestinian Authority has been split into two polities, each seeing itself as the true representative of the Palestinian people – the Fatah-ruled <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Governance_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Governance of the Gaza Strip">Hamas Government</a> in Gaza. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preceding_events">Preceding events</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Involvement_of_Britain">Involvement of Britain</h3></div> <p>Documents published in the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Papers" title="Palestine Papers">Palestine Papers</a> reveal that in 2004 the British intelligence <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a> helped draw up a security plan for a Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. The plan mentioned as an objective, "encourage and enable the Palestinian Authority (PA) to fully meet its security obligations under Phase 1 of the Roadmap". It proposed a number of ways of "degrading the capabilities of rejectionists", naming Hamas, PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and the al-Aqsa Brigades.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plan was described by the Guardian as a "wide-ranging crackdown on Hamas".<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_crackdown_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_crackdown-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The supposed plan for a Fatah counter-insurgency against Hamas backfired in June 2006, when Hamas won the <a href="/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election" title="2006 Palestinian legislative election">2006 elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_MI6_plan_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_MI6_plan-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza">Israeli disengagement from Gaza</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli disengagement from Gaza">Israeli disengagement from Gaza</a></div> <p>In July 2004, there were clashes between rival Hamas-led sections of the security forces in Gaza and violent protests, which were widely seen as a power struggle ahead of Israel's promised pullout from Gaza.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_arafat_denies_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_arafat_denies-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 February 2005, the Israeli parliament had approved its <a href="/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli disengagement from Gaza">disengagement from Gaza</a>, which would drastically change the Israeli–Palestinian relations in Gaza. The disengagement plan from 2003 was already adopted by the Israeli Government in June 2004. Israel withdrew from Gaza in September 2005. Control of the <a href="/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Egypt_border" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza–Egypt border">Gaza–Egypt border</a> was on the Egyptian side handed over to Egypt. The Fatah-dominated PA had been given control on the Gazan side at the <a href="/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing" title="Rafah Border Crossing">Rafah Border Crossing</a>. The 2005 <a href="/wiki/Philadelphi_Route#Philadelphi_Accord" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphi Route">Philadelphi Accord</a> between Israel and Egypt turned over control of the border to Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From February 2005, a technocrat Fatah-led PA government controlled the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Security_Forces" title="Palestinian National Security Forces">Palestinian National Security Forces</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From November 2005 until June 2007, the Rafah Crossing was jointly controlled by Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, with the <a href="/wiki/European_Union_Border_Assistance_Mission_Rafah" class="mw-redirect" title="European Union Border Assistance Mission Rafah">European Union monitoring the activities from 24 November 2005</a> on the Gazan side.<sup id="cite_ref-eubam_faqs_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eubam_faqs-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2006_elections_and_Hamas-government">2006 elections and Hamas-government</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election" title="2006 Palestinian legislative election">2006 Palestinian legislative election</a> and <a href="/wiki/First_Haniyeh_Government" title="First Haniyeh Government">First Haniyeh Government</a></div> <p>Tensions between Fatah and Hamas intensified after Hamas won <a href="/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election" title="2006 Palestinian legislative election">the elections of 2006</a> and the international community increased the pressure on the Palestinian Authority. As a result of the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_government_of_March_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian government of March 2006">Hamas led government</a>'s refusal to commit to nonviolence, recognition of the state of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements, Israel, the <a href="/wiki/Quartet_on_the_Middle_East" title="Quartet on the Middle East">Middle East Quartet</a> (United States, Russia, United Nations, and European Union) and several <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">Western states</a> imposed <a href="/wiki/2006%E2%80%932007_economic_sanctions_against_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="2006–2007 economic sanctions against the Palestinian National Authority">sanctions suspending all foreign aid</a>. </p><p>The PA government, which had shared authority over the Security Forces with President Abbas, was no longer in the hands of Fatah. After Abbas and Hamas had <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Security_Services#2006–2007_internal_power_struggle" title="Palestinian Security Services">engaged in a power struggle</a> but failed to reach an agreement, Abbas appointed, on 6 April 2006, the Fatah-affiliated Abu Shbak head of the Security Forces, by-passing the Hamas <a href="/wiki/Interior_Minister_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority">Interior Minister</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_alone_and_broke_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt_alone_and_broke-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response, Hamas formed its own security force. </p><p>On 25 June 2006, militant groups conducted a <a href="/wiki/Gaza_cross-border_raid_in_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza cross-border raid in 2006">cross-border raid</a> into Israel. The Israeli response left Hamas with half its parliamentary bloc and its cabinet ministers in the West Bank in Israeli custody.<sup id="cite_ref-IISS_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IISS-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_deadlock">Political deadlock</h3></div> <p>The semi-constitutional and semi-presidential <i>Basic Law</i> gave President and Government a shared political power.<sup id="cite_ref-impact_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-impact-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-viken_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-viken-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fatah refused to cooperate with Hamas.<sup id="cite_ref-impact_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-impact-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reuters_timeline_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters_timeline-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The powerful Fatah-backed President Abbas was supported by the international community and more or less tolerated by Israel. The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority and the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">parliament</a> on the other hand were boycotted, and international financial aid was rendered via Abbas, bypassing the Palestinian Government.<sup id="cite_ref-viken_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-viken-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because Fatah and Hamas did not co-operate, the parliament became dysfunctional and the PA suffered financial distress. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Involvement_of_US,_Israel_and_Arab_states"><span id="Involvement_of_US.2C_Israel_and_Arab_states"></span>Involvement of US, Israel and Arab states</h3></div> <p>Several sources speak of considerable involvement by the United States, Israel and Arab states, after Hamas in 2006 announced the formation of its own security service, the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Security_Services#Internal_power_struggle" title="Palestinian Security Services">Executive Force</a>, which was denounced by Mahmoud Abbas as unconstitutional. The Presidential Guard of Mahmoud Abbas was enlarged and equipped, and its members trained by the US, Egypt and Jordan.<sup id="cite_ref-sfgate_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfgate-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-csm_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-csm-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vfair_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vfair-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, a <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">PLC</a> council member for Hamas, Anwar Zaboun, believes that ″<a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Dahlan" title="Mohammed Dahlan">Mohammed Dahlan</a> had a big plan to remove the roots of Hamas, the resistance, in Gaza and the West Bank″.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_Palestinian_split_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_Palestinian_split-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/IISS" class="mw-redirect" title="IISS">IISS</a>, the June 2007 escalation was triggered by Hamas' conviction that the PA's Presidential Guard, loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, was being positioned to take control of Gaza. The US had helped build up the Presidential Guard to 3,500 men since August 2006. The US committed $59 million for training and non-lethal equipment for the Presidential Guard, and persuaded Arab allies to fund the purchase of further weapons. Israel, too, allowed light arms to flow to members of the Presidential Guard. Jordan and Egypt hosted at least two battalions for training.<sup id="cite_ref-IISS_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IISS-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Timeline">Timeline</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_2006_to_December_2006:_rise_of_tensions">March 2006 to December 2006: rise of tensions</h3></div> <p>Following the elections, Hamas announced the formation of its own security service, the <i>Executive Force</i>, appointing <a href="/wiki/Jamal_abu_Samhadana" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamal abu Samhadana">Jamal abu Samhadana</a>, a prominent militant, at its head. Abbas had denounced the move as unconstitutional, saying that only the Palestinian president could command armed forces.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The period from March to December 2006 was marked by tensions when Palestinian Authority commanders affiliated to Fatah refused to take orders from the Hamas-led <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_government_of_March_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian government of March 2006">Palestinian Authority government</a>. Tensions further grew between the two Palestinian factions after they failed to reach a deal to share government power. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_2006_to_January_2007">December 2006 to January 2007</h3></div> <p>Facing international sanctions, the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority depended on the import of large amounts of cash to pay its debts.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_pm_denied_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_pm_denied-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 14 December 2006, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh" title="Ismail Haniyeh">Ismail Haniyeh</a>, carrying tens of millions in donations, was denied by Israel entry into Gaza via the <a href="/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Egypt_border#Rafah_Border_Crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza–Egypt border">Rafah Border Crossing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-aj_hamas_accuses_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aj_hamas_accuses-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Angry Hamas militants stormed the post, which was staffed by European monitors and defended by Abbas' Presidential Guard, responsible for security there. After guards had fired at the Hamas militants, they took over the hall, firing shots into the air. A Hamas official tried to get the militants to disperse. Haniyeh had already cut short his trip due to mounting tensions between Hamas and rival faction Fatah, after three sons of a Fatah security chief were killed days earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_pm_denied_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_pm_denied-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The same day, Haniyeh was allowed to return to Gaza without the money, but while crossing the border, gunmen attacked his car, killing one bodyguard. One of Haniyeh's sons was moderately wounded and his political adviser Ahmed Youssef was lightly wounded.<sup id="cite_ref-jp_abbas_call_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jp_abbas_call-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, Fatah PLC member and former Fatah security chief <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Dahlan" title="Mohammed Dahlan">Mohammed Dahlan</a> was blamed for this apparent assassination attempt.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_egypt_seeks_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_egypt_seeks-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Peace activist Ellen Rosser also believes that it was Dahlan's men who tried to assassinate Haniyeh.<sup id="cite_ref-Khalid_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khalid-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fighting broke out in the West Bank after <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Security_Forces" title="Palestinian National Security Forces">Palestinian National Security Forces</a> fired on a Hamas rally in <a href="/wiki/Ramallah" title="Ramallah">Ramallah</a>. Security units loyal to Mahmoud Abbas and dressed in riot gear used clubs and rifles to beat back the demonstrators before the shooting broke out. At least 20 people were wounded in the clashes, which came shortly after the attempt to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh.<sup id="cite_ref-aj_hamas_accuses_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aj_hamas_accuses-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reuters_abbas_calls_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters_abbas_calls-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 December, Abbas called for new parliamentary and presidential elections, but his advisor <a href="/wiki/Saeb_Erekat" title="Saeb Erekat">Saeb Erekat</a> said that "elections cannot be held before the middle of next year for legal and technical reasons". A senior Hamas lawmaker called it "a real coup against the democratically elected government".<sup id="cite_ref-reuters_abbas_calls_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters_abbas_calls-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hamas challenged the legality of holding an early election, maintaining its right to hold the full term of its elected offices. Hamas characterized it as an attempted Fatah coup by Abbas,<sup id="cite_ref-hardaker_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hardaker-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> using undemocratic means to overthrow the results of a democratically elected government.<sup id="cite_ref-IISS_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IISS-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fatah leaders called for the dismissal of the Hamas-led government and the establishment of an emergency cabinet. One Fatah operative said that Abbas had been threatening to call early elections for the past five months and that "more threats are not going to work".<sup id="cite_ref-jp_abbas_call_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jp_abbas_call-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The announcement of elections provoked high tensions and gun battles between Hamas and Fatah supporters.<sup id="cite_ref-jp_abbas_call_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jp_abbas_call-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hardaker_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hardaker-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abbas strongly denied allegations that members of Fatah and the Force 17 "Presidential Guard" were behind the assassination attempt on Ismail Haniyeh, and he criticized the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.<sup id="cite_ref-jp_abbas_call_63-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jp_abbas_call-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 17 December, pro-Fatah gunmen attacked Hamas' Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar. Pro-Hamas militiamen retaliated with shots at the home of President Abbas, wounding five guards. A member of Fatah's Force 17 was killed, together with a passing woman. At the end of the day, Fatah and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire, though gunfire continued outside Mohammed Dahlan's house.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Intense factional fighting continued throughout December 2006 and January 2007 in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>. After a month of fighting, which left 33 people dead, President Mahmoud Abbas attempted to incorporate the Hamas-led <i>Executive Force</i> into the security apparatus loyal to the president. Hamas rejected Abbas' order and instead announced plans to double the size of its force. On 6 January 2007, Abbas outlawed the <i>Executive Force</i> and ordered its disbandment.<sup id="cite_ref-Boston_Globe_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boston_Globe-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fighting continued until a cease-fire was implemented on 30 January.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dueling announcements raised the prospect of an intensified armed standoff. Abbas's only means of enforcing the order appeared to be coercive action by police and security units under his command, which were relatively weak in the Gaza Strip, Hamas's stronghold.<sup id="cite_ref-Boston_Globe_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boston_Globe-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_to_April_2007">February to April 2007</h3></div> <p>Fierce fighting took place after Hamas killed six people on 1 February in an ambush on a Gaza convoy delivering equipment for Abbas' <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Presidential_Guard" title="Palestinian Presidential Guard">Palestinian Presidential Guard</a>. According to diplomats, the deliveries were meant to counter smuggling of more powerful weapons into Gaza by Hamas for its fast-growing "Executive Force". According to Hamas, the deliveries were intended to instigate sedition (against Hamas), while withholding money and assistance from the Palestinian people.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 8 February 2007, the Saudi-brokered <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_Mecca_Agreement" title="Fatah–Hamas Mecca Agreement">Fatah–Hamas Mecca Agreement</a> produced an agreement on a <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_March_2007_National_Unity_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian March 2007 National Unity Government">Palestinian national unity government</a> signed by Fatah and Hamas leaders. The agreement included measures to end the internecine violence.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The unity government was formed on 17 March. However, it struggled to resolve the two most pressing issues: an economic crisis and a collapse of security in Gaza.<sup id="cite_ref-IISS_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IISS-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Violent incidents continued through March and April 2007; more than 90 people were killed in this period. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_2007">May 2007</h3></div> <p>In mid-May 2007, clashes erupted once again in the streets of Gaza. In less than 18 days, more than 50 Palestinians were killed. Leaders of both parties tried to stop the fighting by calling dozens of truces, but none of them held for longer than a few days. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_2007:_split_of_government">June 2007: split of government</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Battle of Gaza (2007)</a></div> <p>Throughout 10 and 15 June of fighting Hamas took control of the main north–south road and the coastal road.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC:How_Hamas_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC:How_Hamas-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and removed <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a> officials. The <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">ICRC</a> estimated that at least 118 people were killed and more than 550 wounded during the fighting in the week up to June 15.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> accused both sides with violations of international humanitarian law. Including the targeting and killing of civilians, public executions of political opponents and captives, throwing prisoners off high-rise apartment buildings, fighting in hospitals, and shooting from a jeep marked with "TV" insignias.<sup id="cite_ref-hrw_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hrw-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The International Committee of the Red Cross has denounced attacks in and around two hospitals in the northern part of the Gaza strip.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Israeli government closed all check-points on the borders of Gaza in response to the violence. </p><p>On 14 June, <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="President of the Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian President</a> <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a> announced the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_parliament" title="Dissolution of parliament">dissolution</a> of the current unity government and the declaration of a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fox_disolve_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fox_disolve-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_dissolve_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph_dissolve-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh" title="Ismail Haniyeh">Ismail Haniyeh</a> was dismissed, and Abbas began to rule Gaza and the West Bank by presidential decree. Hamas spokesman <a href="/wiki/Sami_Abu_Zuhri" title="Sami Abu Zuhri">Sami Abu Zuhri</a> responded by declaring that President Abbas's decision was "in practical terms ... worthless," asserting that Haniyeh "remains the head of the government even if it was dissolved by the president".<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_dissolve_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_dissolve-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hamas_takes_control_of_Gaza_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hamas_takes_control_of_Gaza-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nathan Brown of the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Endowment_for_International_Peace" title="Carnegie Endowment for International Peace">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</a> commented that under the 2003 <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution of Palestine">Palestinian Constitution</a> Abbas clearly had the right to declare a state of emergency and dismiss the prime minister but the state of emergency could continue only for 30 days. After that it would need to be approved by the (Hamas-dominated) Legislative Council. Neither Hamas nor Fatah had enough votes to form a new government under the constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-brown-2007_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brown-2007-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemned Hamas' "decision to resolve the conflict militarily" but argued that "steps taken by President Mahmoud Abbas in response to these events violate the Basic Law and undermine the Basic Law in a manner that is no less dangerous."<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 June, Abbas appointed <a href="/wiki/Salam_Fayyad" title="Salam Fayyad">Salam Fayyad</a> as prime minister and gave him the task of forming a new government.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The international community smoothly recognized the government. Within days, the US recognized Abbas' emergency government and ended a 15-month economic and political boycott of the Palestinian Authority in a bid to bolster President Abbas and the new Fatah-led government. The European Union similarly announced plans to resume direct aid to the Palestinians, while Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ehud_Olmert" title="Ehud Olmert">Ehud Olmert</a> of Israel said it would release to Abbas Palestinian tax revenues that Israel had withheld since Hamas took control of the Palestinian Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-reuters_timeline_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters_timeline-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-iht_us_ends_embargo_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iht_us_ends_embargo-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Bank_clashes">West Bank clashes</h3></div> <p>The attacks of Hamas gunmen against Fatah security forces in the Gaza Strip resulted in a reaction of Fatah gunmen against Hamas institutions in the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>. Although Hamas's numbers were greater in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>, Fatah forces were greater in the West Bank. </p><p>The West Bank had its first casualty when the bullet-riddled body of a Hamas militant was found in <a href="/wiki/Nablus" title="Nablus">Nablus</a>, sparking the fear that Fatah would use its advantage in the West Bank for retaliation against its members' deaths in the Gaza Strip.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the same day, Hamas also declared that it was in full control of Gaza, a claim denied by Abbas.<sup id="cite_ref-gaza_control_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gaza_control-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 June, a Fatah-linked militant group, the <a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Martyr%27s_Brigades" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades">al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades</a>, stormed the Hamas-controlled parliament based in Ramallah in the West Bank. This act, including the ransack of the ministry of education, was seen as a reaction to similar looting occurring following Hamas' military success in Gaza.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 20 June, Hamas leader <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Zahar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahmoud Zahar">Mahmoud Zahar</a> declared that if Fatah continued to try to uproot Hamas in the West Bank, it could lead to Fatah's downfall there as well. He would not deny when asked that Hamas resistance against Fatah would take the form of attacks and suicide bombings similar to those that Hamas has used against Israel in the past.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October_2007_to_January_2008:_renewed_clashes">October 2007 to January 2008: renewed clashes</h3></div> <p>On 17 October, clashes erupted in eastern Gaza between Hamas security forces and members of the powerful Heles clan (Fatah-affiliated), leaving up to two dead on both sides. Fatah and Hamas officials gave conflicting accounts of what caused the fighting but the dispute seems to have originated when Hamas officials demanded that the clan return a governmental car. Another gun battle on 20 October killed one member of the clan and a 13-year-old boy.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the same day, in Rafah, one woman was killed and eight people were injured when Hamas security members traded fire with Islamic Jihad activists. Two days later, seven more Palestinians were killed in the internal fighting, including some Hamas militants and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 November, a large demonstration dedicated to the memory of late Palestinian Authority President <a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a> was organized by Fatah in Gaza City. With over 200,000 participants, this was the largest Fatah demonstration in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas takeover. The demonstration was forcibly dispersed by Hamas gunmen, who fired into the crowd. At least six civilians were killed and over 80 people were injured, some from being trampled in the resulting stampede.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The smaller militant group Islamic Jihad, whose members have clashed with Hamas several times, condemned the shootings. </p><p>On 1 January 2008, at least eight people died in factional fighting in the Gaza Strip.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2008_Sana'a_declaration"><span id="2008_Sana.27a_declaration"></span>2008 Sana'a declaration</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_reconciliation_process" title="Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process">Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process</a></div> <p>On 23 March 2008, Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sana'a</a>, Yemen that amounted to a reconciliation deal. It called for a return of the Gaza Strip to the pre-June 2007 situation, though this has not happened.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 8 November 2008, Palestinian reconciliation talks due to be held in Cairo were called off after Hamas announced a boycott in protest at the detention of hundreds of its members by president Mahmoud Abbas's security forces.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009_political_violence">2009 political violence</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2009_Hamas_political_violence_in_Gaza" title="2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza">2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/2009_Hamas_political_violence_in_Gaza" title="2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza">2009 Hamas political violence</a> took place in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> during and after the <a href="/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict">2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict</a>. A series of violent acts, ranging from physical assaults, <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Execution" class="mw-redirect" title="Execution">executions</a> of <a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a>, suspected of <a href="/wiki/Collaboration" title="Collaboration">collaboration</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a>, as well as members of the <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a> political party, occurred. According to <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a>, at least 32 people were killed by these attacks: 18 during the conflict and 14 afterward, and several dozen more were maimed, many by shots to the legs.<sup id="cite_ref-JP_HRW_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP_HRW-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HRW_report_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW_report-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 31 May 2009, six people were killed as Palestinian Authority and Hamas forces clashed in <a href="/wiki/Qalqilya" title="Qalqilya">Qalqilya</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ethan_Bronner" title="Ethan Bronner">Ethan Bronner</a> described the fighting as an indication "that the Palestinian unity needed for creation of a state is far off."<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_to_present:_tensions_and_reconciliation_attempts">2010 to present: tensions and reconciliation attempts</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/2019_Gaza_economic_protests" title="2019 Gaza economic protests">2019 Gaza economic protests</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_reconciliation_process" title="Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process">Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="During_the_Arab_Spring">During the Arab Spring</h4></div> <p>Following the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Revolution of 2011">Egyptian Revolution of 2011</a> and the deposal of Egyptian president Morsi in July 2013, tensions between Fatah and Hamas reached a new high.<sup id="cite_ref-JP_140713_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP_140713-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JP_020913_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP_020913-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-What_reconciliation_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What_reconciliation-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Barakat al-Farra, the PLO ambassador in Cairo, the Egyptian US-backed <a href="/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi" title="Abdel Fattah el-Sisi">el-Sisi</a> regime, which annually receives some $1.5 billion military aid from the US,<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> will keep the <a href="/wiki/Rafah_border_crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Rafah border crossing">Rafah border crossing</a> closed, until forces loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have regained control. A Hamas official accused the PA leadership of playing a major role in enforcing the <a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Blockade of the Gaza Strip">blockade of the Gaza Strip</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the midst of negotiations to resolve the <a href="/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Israel–Gaza conflict">2014 Israel–Gaza conflict</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Shin_Bet" title="Shin Bet">Shin Bet</a> revealed an alleged plot by Hamas to depose <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian government">Fatah in the West Bank</a>. This would be achieved by deploying Hamas cells around the West Bank to incite a third <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intifada" class="extiw" title="wikt:intifada">intifada</a> and overwhelm Palestinian Authority forces. More than 90 people were arrested. President Abbas said the plot was "a grave threat to the unity of the Palestinian people and its future."<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2021_elections_failure">2021 elections failure</h4></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/2021_Palestinian_legislative_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Palestinian legislative election">2021 Palestinian legislative election</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestinian Legislative Council</a>, originally scheduled for 22 May 2021, according to a decree by President <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a> on 15 January 2021, was indefinitely postponed on 29 April 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Announcing the postponement on Palestinian TV, Abbas said "Facing this difficult situation, we decided to postpone the date of holding legislative elections until the participation of Jerusalem and its people is guaranteed."<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hamas has rejected the idea of postponing elections and refused to attend the meeting amid speculation that Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party will seek to delay or cancel them. Hamas said voting in East Jerusalem does not need Israeli permission.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hamas boycotted the <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Palestinian_local_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2021–2022 Palestinian local elections">2021–2022 Palestinian local elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gaza_war_(2023–present)"><span id="Gaza_war_.282023.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Gaza war (2023–present)</h4></div> <p>In March 2024, Hamas and its allied groups in the Gaza Strip criticized Abbas' appointment of <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Mustafa_(economist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Mustafa (economist)">Mohamed Mustafa</a> as the Palestinian Authority's new prime minister following <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Shtayyeh" title="Mohammad Shtayyeh">Mohammed Shtayyeh</a>'s resignation. They issued a statement referring to the changes as "formal steps that are devoid of substance" and questioned the Palestinian Authority's ability to properly represent the Palestinian people. In response, Fatah condemned Hamas as being itself disconnected from the Palestinian people and accused them of "having caused the return of the Israeli occupation of Gaza" by "undertaking <a href="/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel">the October 7 adventure</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later that month, Hamas accused Fatah of sending security officers into northern Gaza in collaboration with Israel, saying it had arrested six individuals and were "in pursuit" of the others. The Palestinian Authority issued a statement refuting the claims by Hamas.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_September" title="Black September">Black September</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamastan" title="Hamastan">Hamastan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Gaza_economic_protests" title="2019 Gaza economic protests">2019 Gaza economic protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence" title="Palestinian political violence">Palestinian political violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_incursions_in_the_West_Bank_during_the_2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war">Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Authority%E2%80%93West_Bank_militias_conflict" title="Palestinian Authority–West Bank militias conflict">Palestinian Authority–West Bank militias conflict</a>, a related inter-Palestinian conflict</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The AAMB separated from Fatah after Mahmoud Abbas' 2007 decree banning all militias following the Battle of Gaza.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, it sometimes still present itself as the party's armed wing, an association rejected by Fatah leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hamas has been designated as a terrorist group by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, Paraguay, the United 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Ian Black and Seumas Milne, <i>Guardian</i>, 25 January 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Guardian_MI6_plan-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Guardian_MI6_plan_44-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/25/mi6-palestinian-papers-rejectionists-plan"><i>Palestine papers: MI6 plan proposed internment – and hotline to Israelis</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170226015556/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/25/mi6-palestinian-papers-rejectionists-plan">Archived</a> February 26, 2017, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Ian Black and Seumas Milne, Guardian, 25 January 2011<br />- "the [Palestine papers] documents reflected a 2003 decision by Tony Blair to tie UK and EU security policy in the West Bank and Gaza to a US-led "counter-insurgency surge" against Hamas – which backfired when the Islamists won the 2006 elections".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bbc_arafat_denies-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bbc_arafat_denies_45-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3922537.stm"><i>Arafat denies he is facing crisis</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151208214335/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3922537.stm">Archived</a> December 8, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. BBC, 24 July 2004</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-new-reality-on-the-egypt-gaza-border-part-i-contents-of-the-new-israel-eg"><i>A New Reality on the Egypt-Gaza Border (Part I): Contents of the New Israel-Egypt Agreement</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151118083020/http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-new-reality-on-the-egypt-gaza-border-part-i-contents-of-the-new-israel-eg">Archived</a> November 18, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Brooke Neuman, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 September 2005</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=9055&CategoryId=4"><i>Current Palestinian Government Structure (Factsheet)</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151118125506/http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=9055&CategoryId=4">Archived</a> November 18, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. MIFTAH, 3 December 2005</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-eubam_faqs-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-eubam_faqs_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eubam-rafah.eu/node/2311"><i>FAQs</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151118120217/http://www.eubam-rafah.eu/node/2311">Archived</a> November 18, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. EU BAM Rafah. Accessed September 2015</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nyt_alone_and_broke-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nyt_alone_and_broke_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/world/middleeast/07hamas.html"><i>Alone and Broke, Hamas Struggles to Rule</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160726033118/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/world/middleeast/07hamas.html">Archived</a> July 26, 2016, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. New York Times, 7 April 2006</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-IISS-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-IISS_50-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IISS_50-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IISS_50-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IISS_50-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/past-issues/volume-13---2007/volume-13-issue-5/hamas-coup-in-gaza/">"Hamas coup in Gaza"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081015202544/http://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/past-issues/volume-13---2007/volume-13-issue-5/hamas-coup-in-gaza/">Archived</a> October 15, 2008, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. International Institute for Strategic Studies, Volume 13, Issue 5; June 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-impact-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-impact_51-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-impact_51-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/09/16/pa.gsp028.full.pdf+html"><i>The Impact of Semi-Presidentialism on Governance in the Palestinian Authority</i> (pdf)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151023063606/http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/09/16/pa.gsp028.full.pdf+html">Archived</a> October 23, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, pp. 6, 9, 10-11, 16-17. Francesco Cavatorta and Robert Elgie. Parliam Affairs (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/09/16/pa.gsp028.full">(Also in HTML version)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151023063552/http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/09/16/pa.gsp028.full">Archived</a> October 23, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a><br />p. 6: "the PA has a president-parliamentary form of semi-presidentialism"; p. 9: "The Basic Law of the Palestinian Authority is the equivalent of an interim constitution"; p. 11: ", the semi-presidential structures of the 2003 amended Basic Law highlighted and accelerated divisions between Hamas and Fatah ... Hamas offered Fatah a grand coalition, but Fatah refused"; p. 17: "The semi-presidential structure of the 2003 amended Basic Law was the source of this destabilising period of competition within the executive ... The creation of two competing centres of power with equal popular legitimacy raised the political stakes within the system as both actors tried to undermine the position of other."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-viken-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-viken_52-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-viken_52-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTonje_Merete_Viken2008" class="citation web cs1">Tonje Merete Viken (Spring 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.palestinianbasiclaw.org/downloads/tonje-merete-viken-masteroppgave.pdf">"Struggles for Power and Unity - Constitutional Designs in the Palestinian Authority"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>palestinianbasiclaw.org</i>. University of Oslo. pp. 4, <span class="nowrap">78–</span>80. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113156/http://www.palestinianbasiclaw.org/downloads/tonje-merete-viken-masteroppgave.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on March 4, 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=palestinianbasiclaw.org&rft.atitle=Struggles+for+Power+and+Unity+-+Constitutional+Designs+in+the+Palestinian+Authority&rft.ssn=spring&rft.pages=4%2C+%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E78-%3C%2Fspan%3E80&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Tonje+Merete+Viken&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.palestinianbasiclaw.org%2Fdownloads%2Ftonje-merete-viken-masteroppgave.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFatah%E2%80%93Hamas+conflict" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-reuters_timeline-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-reuters_timeline_53-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-reuters_timeline_53-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-timeline-idUSL1752364420070620"><i>TIMELINE: Key events since 2006</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150930111252/http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/20/us-palestinians-timeline-idUSL1752364420070620">Archived</a> September 30, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Reuters, 20 June 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sfgate-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sfgate_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/21/MNHV15EHUT.DTL">"Hamas executes suspected Fatah traitors in Gaza"</a>. <i>SFGate</i>. January 22, 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110716081531/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/21/MNHV15EHUT.DTL">Archived</a> from the original on July 16, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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April 2008. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140118083319/http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804">Archived</a> from the original on January 18, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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BBC, 17 June 2013<br />- ″In terms of the reconciliation, I know there is a veto from the United States of America and the European Union. There is pressure.″</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKalman2006" class="citation news cs1">Kalman, Matthew (December 14, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/U-S-training-Fatah-in-anti-terror-tactics-2465370.php">"U.S. training Fatah in anti-terror tactics / Underlying motive is to counter strength of Hamas, analysts say"</a>. sfgate. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131203105550/http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/U-S-training-Fatah-in-anti-terror-tactics-2465370.php">Archived</a> from the original on December 3, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=U.S.+training+Fatah+in+anti-terror+tactics+%2F+Underlying+motive+is+to+counter+strength+of+Hamas%2C+analysts+say&rft.date=2006-12-14&rft.aulast=Kalman&rft.aufirst=Matthew&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fnews%2Farticle%2FU-S-training-Fatah-in-anti-terror-tactics-2465370.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFatah%E2%80%93Hamas+conflict" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bbc_pm_denied-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bbc_pm_denied_61-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bbc_pm_denied_61-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6180823.stm"><i>Palestinian PM denied Gaza entry</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151007024710/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6180823.stm">Archived</a> October 7, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, BBC, 14 December 2006</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-aj_hamas_accuses-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-aj_hamas_accuses_62-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-aj_hamas_accuses_62-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080314202950/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/793DD747-A1B7-4BE3-B120-0CF171612495.htm"><i>Hamas accuses Fatah over attack</i></a>. 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Marzook">Mousa Abu Marzook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaher_Jabarin" title="Zaher Jabarin">Zaher Jabarin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essam_al-Da%27alis" title="Essam al-Da'alis">Essam al-Da'alis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantisi" title="Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi">Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Rantisi_Hospital" title="Al-Rantisi Hospital">hospital</a></li></ul></li> <li>Women: <a href="/wiki/Jamila_Abdallah_Taha_al-Shanti" title="Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti">Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umm_Nidal" title="Umm Nidal">Umm Nidal</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Elections9" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BFDFBF;;width:1%">Elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2005_Palestinian_presidential_election" title="2005 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href="/w/index.php?title=Palestinian_Executive_Force&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Palestinian Executive Force (page does not exist)">Palestinian Executive Force</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B0%D9%8A%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:القوة التنفيذية">ar</a>]</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Said_Seyam" title="Said Seyam">Said Seyam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_law" title="Palestinian law">Palestinian law</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip">Executions</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#008000; color:white;;width:1%;background:#80BF80; color:black;">Military wing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Joint_Operations_Room" title="Palestinian Joint Operations Room">Palestinian Joint Operations Room</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qassam_Brigades" title="Al-Qassam Brigades">Al-Qassam Brigades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nukhba_forces" title="Nukhba forces">Nukbha</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ayman_Nofal" title="Ayman Nofal">Ayman Nofal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas_in_Lebanon" title="Hamas in Lebanon">al-Aqsa Flood Vanguards unit</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="People6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BFDFBF;;width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Leader: <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Deif" title="Mohammed Deif">Mohammed Deif</a></li> <li>Spokesperson: <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ubaida_(Hamas)" title="Abu Ubaida (Hamas)">Abu Ubaida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marwan_Issa" title="Marwan Issa">Marwan Issa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash" title="Yahya Ayyash">Yahya Ayyash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adnan_al-Ghoul" title="Adnan al-Ghoul">Adnan al-Ghoul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salah_Shehade" title="Salah Shehade">Salah Shehade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazen_Faqha" title="Mazen Faqha">Mazen Faqha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wa%27el_Nassar" title="Wa'el Nassar">Wa'el Nassar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Jabari" title="Ahmed Jabari">Ahmed Jabari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imad_Abbas" title="Imad Abbas">Imad Abbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emad_Akel" title="Emad Akel">Emad Akel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nidal_Farahat" title="Nidal Farahat">Nidal Farahat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yunis_Al_Astal" title="Yunis Al Astal">Yunis Al Astal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Ghandour_(militant)" title="Ahmed Ghandour (militant)">Ahmed Ghandour</a></li> <li>Women <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reem_Riyashi" title="Reem Riyashi">Reem Riyashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatma_Omar_An-Najar" title="Fatma Omar An-Najar">Fatma Omar An-Najar</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BFDFBF;;width:1%">Operations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Yaron_and_Efrat_Ungar" title="Murder of Yaron and Efrat Ungar">Murder of Yaron and Efrat Ungar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bombing" title="Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing">Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Immanuel_bus_attack" title="2001 Immanuel bus attack">2001 Immanuel bus attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Ashdod_Port_bombings" title="2004 Ashdod Port bombings">2004 Ashdod Port bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IDF_outpost_bombing_attack_(December_2004)" title="IDF outpost bombing attack (December 2004)">IDF outpost bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Gaza_cross-border_raid" title="2006 Gaza cross-border raid">2006 Gaza cross-border raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)" title="Gaza War (2008–2009)">Gaza War (2008–2009)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2010_West_Bank_shooting_attack" title="August 2010 West Bank shooting attack">August 2010 West Bank shooting attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Gaza_War" title="2012 Gaza War">2012 Gaza War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Gaza_War" title="2014 Gaza War">2014 Gaza War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Israel%E2%80%93Palestine_crisis" title="2021 Israel–Palestine crisis">2021 Israel–Palestine crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_October_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel">2023 attack on Israel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_war" title="Gaza war">Gaza war</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BFDFBF;;width:1%">Weapons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Bana" title="Al-Bana">Al-Bana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batar" title="Batar">Batar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qassam_rocket" title="Qassam rocket">Qassam rocket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasin_(RPG)" title="Yasin (RPG)">Yasin (RPG)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#008000; color:white;;width:1%;background:#80BF80; color:black;">Social services</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_University_of_Gaza" title="Islamic University of Gaza">Islamic University of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mujama_al-Islamiya" title="Mujama al-Islamiya">Mujama al-Islamiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_Fund" title="Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund">Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#008000; color:white;;width:1%;background:#80BF80; color:black;">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_TV" title="Al-Aqsa TV">Al-Aqsa TV</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tomorrow%27s_Pioneers" title="Tomorrow's Pioneers">Tomorrow's Pioneers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Voice_Radio" title="Al-Aqsa Voice Radio">Al-Aqsa Voice Radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Quds_TV" title="Al-Quds TV">Al-Quds TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shehab_News_Agency" title="Shehab News Agency">Shehab News Agency</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Al-Watan_(Palestine)" title="Al-Watan (Palestine)">Al-Watan</a></i> (defunct)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#008000; color:white;;width:1%;background:#80BF80; color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Hamas" title="Foreign relations of Hamas"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: black; text-decoration: inherit;">Foreign relations</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Support from (<a href="/wiki/Iranian_support_for_Hamas" title="Iranian support for Hamas">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas" title="Israeli support for Hamas">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatari_support_for_Hamas" title="Qatari support for Hamas">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_support_for_Hamas" title="Turkish support for Hamas">Turkey</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Hamas_relations" title="Russia–Hamas relations">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas_in_Lebanon" title="Hamas in Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#008000; color:white;;width:1%;background:#80BF80; color:black;">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Hamas" title="Criticism of Hamas">Criticism of Hamas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hamas_war_crimes" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamas war crimes">Hamas war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas_most_wanted_playing_cards" title="Hamas most wanted playing cards">Hamas most wanted playing cards</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#008000; color:white;"><div><span 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title="Palestine">Palestine</a> topics</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Palestine" title="History of Palestine">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Palestine" title="History of Palestine">Early history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canaanites" class="mw-redirect" title="Canaanites">Canaanites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philistines" title="Philistines">Philistines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_the_Levant" title="Muslim conquest of the Levant">Islamic Rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem" title="Kingdom of Jerusalem">Crusaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Ayyubid Dynasty">Ayyubid Dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate" title="Mamluk Sultanate">Mamluk Dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="History of the State of Palestine">Modern history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Palestinians" title="History of the Palestinians">History of the Palestinians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Palestine" title="Slavery in Palestine">Slavery in Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_nationalism" title="Palestinian nationalism">Palestinian nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">British Mandate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakba" title="Nakba">Nakba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Palestinian Declaration of Independence">Palestinian Declaration of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_years_in_the_Palestinian_territories" title="List of years in the Palestinian territories">Years in the Palestinian territories</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Conflict</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Israeli–Palestinian conflict">Israeli–Palestinian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war" class="mw-redirect" title="1947–1949 Palestine war">1947–1949 Palestine war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 Palestinian exodus">1948 Palestinian exodus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_insurgency_in_South_Lebanon" title="Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon">Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War" title="1982 Lebanon War">First Lebanon War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Intifada" title="First Intifada">First Intifada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Intifada" title="Second Intifada">Second Intifada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)" title="Gaza War (2008–2009)">Gaza War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_war" title="Gaza war">Gaza war</a> (2023-)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Black_September" title="Black September">Black September</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings" title="Dawson's Field hijackings">Dawson's Field hijackings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Fatah–Hamas conflict</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Battle of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Hamas_political_violence_in_Gaza" title="2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza">2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;">Hamas-Salafist conflict</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rafah_(2009)" title="Battle of Rafah (2009)">Hamas-Jund Ansar Allah clash</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_State_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Geography of the State of Palestine">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves" title="Palestinian enclaves">Enclaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Northern West Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judea" title="Judea">Southern West Bank</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Borders_of_Palestine" title="Category:Borders of Palestine">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_administered_by_the_Palestinian_Authority" title="List of cities administered by the Palestinian Authority">Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_Palestine" title="Governorates of Palestine">Governorates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Landforms_of_Palestine" title="Category:Landforms of Palestine">Landforms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_depopulated_during_the_1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war" title="List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war">Depopulated villages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="List of World Heritage Sites in the State of Palestine">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="Politics of the Palestinian National Authority">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestine" title="Palestine">State of Palestine</a> (<a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="International recognition of the State of Palestine">International recognition</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="List of political parties in the State of Palestine">Political parties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine">DFLP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Democratic_Union" title="Palestinian Democratic Union">FIDA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Initiative" title="Palestinian National Initiative">Palestinian National Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_People%27s_Party" title="Palestinian People's Party">PPP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine">PFLP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Way_(Palestinian_political_party)" title="Third Way (Palestinian political party)">Third Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Popular_Struggle_Front" title="Palestinian Popular Struggle Front">PPSF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_return" title="Palestinian right of return">Palestinian right of return</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence" title="Palestinian political violence">Palestinian political violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine" title="Elections in Palestine">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_status_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Legal status of the State of Palestine">Legal status of the State of Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Palestinianism" title="Anti-Palestinianism">Anti-Palestinianism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Palestine" title="Government of Palestine">West Bank (SOP-controlled)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Prime Minister of the State of Palestine">Prime Minister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="President of the State of Palestine">President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Council" title="Palestinian National Council">Palestinian National Council</a></li> <li><a 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