Palestinian PM to visit Gaza late April: Hamas leader
Date
4/21/2015 3:39:18 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah will visit the Gaza Strip late April, according to Ziad al-Zaza, a leading member of Hamas movement.
"We were informed that [Hamdallah] will visit the Gaza Strip within nine days to discuss pressing issues, particularly Gaza's civil servants' crisis," al-Zaza told The Anadolu Agency on Monday.
The Palestinian government has yet to confirm Hamdallah's visit to the Gaza Strip.
Earlier on Monday, a group of 11 Palestinian ministers cut short a visit to the Gaza Strip following disagreements with Hamas movement over the status of thousands of Hamas-hired civil servants.
The Palestinian ministers arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday for what had been scheduled to be a one-week stay aimed at discussing the Gaza Strip's most pressing problems.
Ihab Bassiso, the Palestinian government's spokesman, said on Sunday that the visiting ministers would primarily focus on integrating the Gaza Strip's civil servants who had been hired by Hamas movement during the latter's control of the enclave since 2007.
Thousands of the Gaza Strip's civil servants have not received their monthly salaries since Hamdallah's government was unveiled in June of last year.
Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a reconciliation deal in April of last year that called for the formation of a national unity government.
The government was formed last summer, but it has yet to assume full control of the Gaza Strip.
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