Abbas picks loyalist Shtayyeh as Palestinian prime minister

The appointment was announced six weeks after Rami al-Hamdallah tendered his resignation from the post and the resignation of his unity government to President Mahmoud Abbas, underscoring the failure of Hamas and Fatah to implement a power-sharing deal. Speaking to Palestine Television, Shtayyeh said he would immediately begin consultations with factions belonging to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Abbas heads, on forming a new cabinet. Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since seizing the enclave from Fatah in 2007, is not a member of the PLO.

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