{"id":1388,"date":"2025-03-22T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2025-03-22T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:07:50","slug":"palestinian-president-calls-on-hamas-to-step-down-for-gazas-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian president calls on Hamas to step down for Gaza\u2019s survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas\u2019s Fatah movement called on its rivals Hamas on Saturday to relinquish power in order to safeguard the \u201cexistence\u201d of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas must show compassion for Gaza, its children, women and men,\u201d Fatah spokesman Monther al-Hayek said in a message sent to AFP from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>He called on Hamas to \u201cstep aside from governing and fully recognise that the battle ahead will lead to the end of Palestinians\u2019 existence\u201d if it remains in power in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, and subsequent attempts at reconciliation have failed.<\/p>\n<p>The territory has been devastated by an Israeli offensive in retaliation for the assault by Hamas and other Palestinian on Israel on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Following disagreement over the next steps in a January 19 ceasefire in the Gaza war, Israeli resumed air strikes on Tuesday, followed by ground operations the day after.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to annex parts of Gaza unless Hamas frees the remaining Israeli hostages seized in the October 7 attack.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 251 hostages taken that day, 58 are still being held, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 50,000 people in Gaza have been killed in the war, according to the Hamas-run territory\u2019s health ministry.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas\u2019s Fatah movement called on its rivals Hamas on Saturday to relinquish power in order to safeguard the \u201cexistence\u201d of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. \u201cHamas must show compassion for Gaza, its children, women and men,\u201d Fatah spokesman Monther al-Hayek said in a message sent to AFP from Gaza. He called on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}