Palestinian unity government of 2014

The Palestinian Unity Government of June 2014 was a national unity government from 2 June 2014 to 17 June 2015 under Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian National Authority government was formed after an agreement between the Fatah and Hamas parties. The ministers were nominally independent, but overwhelmingly seen as loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement or to smaller leftist factions. None was believed to have close ties to Hamas. In fact, this government was illegal, as it was not approved by the Legislative Council.

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.

The international community agreed to work with the new government. While the US' reaction was reserved, the Israeli Government condemned the unity government.

On 17 June 2015, the government resigned under protest of Hamas. In July and December 2015, Abbas unilaterally reshuffled the cabinet and appointed new ministers, which was denounced by Hamas. Although Hamas did not recognize the new ministers and rejected the one-sided changes, the reshuffling was called "technical and not political", and the new cabinet was presented as a slightly changed existing government, still called "consensus government". In October 2016, Hamas reshuffled its Vice-Ministers of the unity government, with no consent of the Ramallah administration, thus creation a de-facto new government in the Gaza Strip.

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