Salam Fayyad will continue to head the Palestinian government as prime minister 
The Palestinian Hamas faction that governs Gaza has condemned the appointment of a new government by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah.
Fawzi Barhoum , a spokesman for Hamas, said the appointment of the new government would "sabotage" intra-Palestinian talks.
"The formation of the government by Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] in the West Bank will reinforce the political chaos, judicial and legislative, which he is carrying out over there in the West Bank," he said in Gaza on Tuesday.
"This is considered to be a deliberate sabotage of the internal Palestinian dialogue and threatens the negotiations slated to take place in the future in Cairo."
The government, sworn in on Tuesday at a ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is staffed mostly by Abbas's Fatah faction and excludes Hamas.
It is headed by Salam Fayyad, the US-educated prime minister who once worked for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Fatah and Hamas delegates adjourned a fifth round of reconciliation talks in Egypt without a deal on Monday.
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Fawzi Barhoum , a spokesman for Hamas, said the appointment of the new government would "sabotage" intra-Palestinian talks.
"The formation of the government by Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] in the West Bank will reinforce the political chaos, judicial and legislative, which he is carrying out over there in the West Bank," he said in Gaza on Tuesday.
"This is considered to be a deliberate sabotage of the internal Palestinian dialogue and threatens the negotiations slated to take place in the future in Cairo."
The government, sworn in on Tuesday at a ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is staffed mostly by Abbas's Fatah faction and excludes Hamas.
It is headed by Salam Fayyad, the US-educated prime minister who once worked for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Fatah and Hamas delegates adjourned a fifth round of reconciliation talks in Egypt without a deal on Monday.
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