'Unity' Ministers arrive in Gaza to kick start
Around 50 Palestinian unity government officials, including eight ministers, arrived in Gaza Dec. 29 to kickstart reconstruction of the territory devastated by a 50-day war with Israel, officials told AFP.
The unity government was the fruit of an April reconciliation deal between the Islamist Hamas movement and the Fatah organisation of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
The eight ministers who are travelling to Gaza from the West Bank town of Ramallah are the ministers of health, education, social affairs and local government, and the heads of the water, power and environment agencies, who have ministerial rank.
A spate of bombings last month targeting the property of Fatah officials in Gaza prompted Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah to cancel a scheduled visit. Read the full story here.
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