Cross front against Abbas: Islamists, communists and social democrats against the new prime minister. Hamas sees this development as a threat to its dominance in the Gaza Strip, where it took sole control in 2007.
The previous Fatah Prime Minister Mohammed Shtajjeh resigned around three weeks ago with the entire Palestinian government based in the West Bank. The USA and President Joe Biden have a concrete idea of how Gaza Strip should be organized after the war in Israel: Hamas should disappear and the Palestinian Authority (PA) should take control again.