Hamas and Fatah, the main faction in the US-backed Palestinian Authority, said they and other Palestinian factions had agreed to form a unity government, during talks in China on Tuesday. The broad agreement is the latest move to revive long-stalled efforts between the rival factions to form a government for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With Israel vowing to destroy Hamas in the war on Gaza, the Palestinians could try to present a unity government as an alternative to Hamas’s rule over the territory.
