RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Appointed PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reportedly offered space in a unity government to Hamas, Agence-France Presse reported Sunday.
Fayyad told the news organization that the move was aimed at ensuring presidential and legislative elections would go forward by September, after Hamas earlier refused to participate in the PA-run call to vote.
According to the AP report, Hamas would remain in power in Gaza under an agreement that it would see it maintain a ceasefire with Israel, while Fayyad would govern in the West Bank.
In Damascus, Hamas politburo chief Khalid Mash'al told the party-affiliated Palestine Information Center that "new initiatives" were in store from the Islamist movement.
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