Hamas and other factions said Friday that this week’s appointment of a new Palestinian prime minister by president Mahmud Abbas could deepen divisions as war rages in Gaza.
“Making individual decisions, and engaging in formal steps that are devoid of substance, like forming a new government without national consensus, is a reinforcement of a policy of exclusion and the deepening of division,” the factions said in a statement.
Such steps point to a “huge gap between the (Palestinian) Authority and the people, their concerns and their aspirations.”