ISRAEL Ending a four-year rift, the two prominent Palestinian parties, Fatah and Hamas, agreed to bury the hatchet, form a unity government and hold elections that would politically reconnect the Fatah-held West Bank and the Hamas-held Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose hard-line government has been liaising with Palestinian Authority President (and Fatah chief) Mahmoud Abbas while seeking to isolate the Islamist group Hamas in blockaded Gaza, warned Abbas, "You can't have peace with Israel and Hamas. It's one or the other."
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