Government Follow-up Committee (Gaza)

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Government Follow-up Committee (Gaza)

In the wake of the June 2007 Palestinian civil war, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas took over Palestinian Authority (PA) institutions in the Gaza Strip, establishing a de facto government led by Ismail Haniyeh (who had previously served as PA prime minister following Hamas’s victory in the 2006 legislative elections). Hamas’s de facto government was eventually dissolved in 2014 as part of the ‘Shati’ reconciliation agreement with Presiden…