Palestinian unity government 'to resign over Gaza row'
The Palestinian Authority's unity government will resign, President Mahmoud Abbas has said.
He told his Fatah faction that the cabinet had to be dissolved because the rival Hamas movement would not allow it to operate in Gaza, which it dominates.
But a Hamas spokesman said it rejected any unilateral dissolution.
The technocratic cabinet, comprising 17 independent ministers, was sworn in a year ago to try to end a long-running rift between Fatah and Hamas.
The two factions had governed separately since Hamas, which won parliamentary elections in 2006, ousted Fatah from Gaza in 2007, leaving the PA governing just parts of the West Bank.