"Hamas prepares for unity government with last cabinet meeting in Gaza City" reads the title of the article published by the Guardian on May 28. The two groups may unite after a seven-year feud. They fought a brief civil war for control of Gaza in 2007 following Hamas's 2006 election in the strip, but now they agreed to set up a unity government, after a series of visits to Gaza by Fatah officials.
"Hamas has said it has held its last cabinet meeting in Gaza City, ahead of an expected announcement of Palestine's long-awaited unity government with its once-bitter rival Fatah", writes the article.
"The unity deal was received positively in Gaza – which saw street rallies on the day of the announcement – as well as in the West Bank, where loyalty to Hamas has long been something that Palestinians kept to themselves. Hamas activists risked arrest by the Palestinian Authority and public rallies were rare. But the agreement has been widely criticised in Israel, with the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, accusing president Mahmoud Abbas of choosing peace with Hamas over peace with Israel", says the Guardian.
