Palestinian PM visits Gaza in major reconciliation move with Hamas
UN 'hopeful' after Hamas announced it was handing over administrative control of the Gaza Strip to Palestinian unity government
Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah and President Mahmoud Abbas on a sign in Gaza (MEE/Mohammed Asad)
Monday 2 October 2017
GAZA CITY, Gaza - The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a major move towards reconciliation between Hamas and the mainstream Fatah party, a decade after the Islamist group seized the territory in a civil war.