CAIRO/RAMALLAH, WEST BANK ¨C Hamas has agreed to dissolve the administration that runs Gaza, it said on Sunday, a major step toward handing control of the enclave to a Palestinian unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007, said it had taken ¡°a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee¡± that runs the territory of 2 million people, and hand power to some form of unity government.
Reunification a decade after Hamas and Abbas¡¯s secular Fatah movement battled for control of Gaza may hinge on whether complex issues related to power-sharing ¡ª which stymied reconciliation bids in the past ¡ª can be resolved.
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