Third Hamdallah Government

Palestinian Unity Government of June 2014

Cabinet of Palestinian National Authority
Date formed2 June 2014
Date dissolved17 June 2015 (Initial Resignation)
17 October 2016 (Hamas forms de facto independent government)
13 April 2019 (Final Dissolution)
People and organisations
Head of stateMahmoud Abbas
Head of governmentMahmoud Abbas
Deputy head of governmentRami Hamdallah
Member partyIndependent
Status in legislatureUnrecognized by the Legislative Council
History
PredecessorFirst and Second Hamdallah Governments (West Bank)
Hamas government of 2012 (Gaza)
SuccessorShtayyeh Government (West Bank)
Hamas government of October 2016 (Gaza)
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Officeholders whose status is disputed are shown in italics
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Legislative Council
Elections
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Riyad Al-Maliki the foreign minister swear in front of the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, at Al-Muqata'a H.Q. in Ramallah.

The Palestinian Unity Government of June 2014 was a national unity government of the Palestinian National Authority under Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formed on 2 June 2014 following the Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation Agreement that had been signed on 23 April 2014. The ministers were nominally independent, but overwhelmingly seen as loyal to President Abbas and his Fatah movement or to smaller leftist factions, none of whom were believed to have close ties to Hamas.[1] However, the Unity Government was not approved by the Legislative Council, leading to its legitimacy being questioned.[2][3] The Unity Government dissolved on 17 June 2015 after President Abbas said it was unable to operate in the Gaza Strip.[4][5]

Before the agreement, there were two separate governments, one ruled by Fatah in the West Bank and the other by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Although this unity government formally was a government representing both Fatah and Hamas, the two parties remained hostile to each other as numerous reconciliation attempts have failed so far.[6]

The international community agreed to work with the new government.[7][8][9][10] While the US reaction was reserved, Israel condemned the unity government, stressing that Hamas is a terrorist organisation which has vowed to destroy the state of Israel.[11]

In July and December 2015, Abbas reshuffled the cabinet and appointed new ministers without consulting Hamas, which was denounced by Hamas. Although Hamas did not recognize the new ministers and rejected the changes, the reshuffling was called "technical and not political",[12] and the new cabinet was presented as a slightly changed existing government, still called "consensus government".[13] In October 2016, Hamas reshuffled its Vice-Ministers of the unity government, without Abbas's consent, thereby creating a de facto new Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.

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