Uri Davis, an Israeli member of the Palestinian nationalist group Fatah and successful candidate for its revolutionary council, walks out of a polling station in after casting his vote during the group's congress to renew its leadership on August 10, 2009.
(AFP/File/Musa al-Shaer)
Baker Abdel Munem, the Palestinian Authority's envoy in Moscow, speaks during a news conference in Moscow May 12, 2006.
REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin
New Palestinian Finance Minister Omar Abdel-Razeq smiles during an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 23, 2006. The 47-year old U.S.-educated Abdel-Razeq was appointed as finance minister earlier this week in the wake of Hamas' victory in Palestinian elections in late January, just weeks after being released from an Israeli jail.
REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel
Palestinian official Tayeb Abdelrahim speaks to the press 21 April 2006, in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas vetoed Hamas government decisions to create a new special force of armed militants headed by a wanted radical.
(AFP/Jamal Aruri)
Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the Political Committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council addresses the media at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday Sept. 20, 2006.
(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Yasser Abed Rabbo, member of the PLO's executive committee, discussing recent clashes in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; Ramallah, July 18, 2005.
MAANnews/Charlotte de Bellabre
Member of the new Palestinian Hamas government Samir Abu Aisha takes the oath as he is sworn in by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas at the headquarters of Palestinian Authority in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 29, 2006.
(Jerry Lampen/Reuters)
Atallah Abu al-Sebah, Minister of Culture in the Hamas government, speaks during an interview with Maan news agency in Gaza; March 29, 2006.
MaanImages/Wesam Saleh
Palestinian foreign minister Ziad Abu Amr, pictured in 2005, arrived in Paris Sunday (1 April 2007) on his first visit to a European capital since a unity cabinet was sworn in last month, brightening prospects for a resumption of aid.
(AFP/File/Brendan Smialowski)
Khaled Abu Arafa, minister of state for Jerusalem affairs in the new Hamas-led Palestinian government, speaks on his cell phone in a hotel in East Jerusalem April 6, 2006. Israeli security forces took into custody a member of the new Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet on Thursday at a roadblock on the outskirts of Jerusalem and released him five hours later. The Israeli army said Khaled Abu Arafa was detained because he is barred from the area.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
France became the first EU country to apply tough travel restrictions on the Hamas-led Palestinian government by refusing an entry visa to planning minister Samir Abu Eisheh, seen here in March 2006, due to attend a Paris conference.
(AFP/File/Jamal Aruri)
Senior Hamas leader Khalil Abu Laila waves outside his house in Gaza February 16, 2006.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinian Minister of Planning Hassan Abu Libdeh talks during the National Conference for Labor, in the West Bank town of Ramallah December 27, 2005.
MAANnews/Charlotte de Bellabre
A file photo of Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' Damascus-based political bureau, on Dec. 30 2005 during a festival for Hamas in Damascus, Syria.
(AP Photo/ Bassem Tellawi, File).
Jamal Abu Samhadana, commander of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), talks to Palestinian militants in Gaza in this July 8, 2005 file photo. Interior Minister Saeed Seyam of Hamas said he had named Samhadana to be supervisor of the Interior Ministry, the government agency that oversees security services.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/Files
Daoud Abu Ser, Hamas candidate newly-elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council; February 1, 2006.
MAANnews/Rami Swidan
Rashid Abu Shbak, Palestinian preventive security chief, speaks during a news conference in Gaza in this November 27, 2004 file photo. Palestinian security forces said on May 21, 2006 they had foiled an attempt to kill one of President Mahmoud Abbas' top commanders, a day after one of his allies was wounded in a suspected assassination attempt. A Palestinian security officer said a bomb weighing 70kg (154lbs) was found outside the Gaza Strip home of Shbak, a member of Abbas' Fatah movement who is in charge of several branches of the Palestinian security services.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/Files
Chief Justice of the Palestinian High Court, judge Issa Abu Sharar, speaks during an interview in the West Bank town of Ramallah; March 12, 2006.
MaanImages/Mushir Abdelrahman
A smiling Sheikh Mohammed Abu Tir, a Hamas candidate and a Palestinian resident of Arab east Jerusalem, casts his vote in the Palestinian elections in Jabel Mukabil, a district of East Jerusalem 25 January 2006.
(YOAV LEMMER/AFP)
Palestinian lawmaker Khalid abu Tous from Hamas, sits next to portraits of jailed parliament members Khalid Tafish, bottom, and Fathee Karawee, top, both from Hamas as he attends a session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday, March 23, 2006.
(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Spokesman for radical Islamist movement Hamas Sami Abu Zuhri speaks during a news conference in Gaza City, May 31, 2005.
(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)
Sultan Abul Aynain, Fatah's leader in Lebanon, in May 2003.
(AFP/File/Jihad Seqlawi)
Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) attends a press briefing in Damascus, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006 during her visit to Syria. AbuZayd is on a tour to the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria to have a look at the refugees' living conditions and what the organization could do to help them.
(AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
PA Minister for Refugees Atef Odwan speaks at a Palestinian conference in Malmo, southern Sweden, May 6, 2006. Sweden has now become the first European country to grant a visa to a Hamas minister since the group won control of the Palestinian Authority.
REUTERS/Stig-Ake Jonsson
George al-Abed, the governor of the Palestinian central bank, speaks to reporters from his offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
(AFP/Jamal Aruri)
Fateh leader Azzam al-Ahmad attends a meeting with the foreign consuls in the West Bank town of Ramallah, March 13, 2006.
MaanImages/Mushir Abdelrahman
Ismael Al-Ashqar, Hamas candidate newly-elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council; February 1, 2006.
MAANnews/Wesam Saleh
Palestinian Presidential candidate Talal Seder al-Ayyoubi talks to reporters at his house in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 17, 2004. Talal Seder al-Ayyoubi, 50, was once Yasser Arafat Sports Minister and more recently served as his adviser on religious affairs.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
Husni al-Burani, Hamas candidate newly-elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council; February 1, 2006.
MAANnews/Rami Swidan
Khaled al-Fahoum, the former head of the Palestinian parliament in exile, seen in this undated file photo, who died Sunday Feb.4, 2006, aged 84, Palestinian officials said. Al-Fahoum died in his home on the outskirts of Damascus early Sunday. 'He was a great leader and a founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization and his death is a great loss to the Palestinian people,' said Ahmed Jibril, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
(AP Photo)
Hamas PLC member Hatem Kafisheh (C) and Fatah PLC Akram al-Himounia (L) hold hands during a joint protest in the West Bank city of Hebron, calling for an end to the unrest between the factions in Gaza, January 8, 2007. The two factions have been locked in a violent power struggle that some Palestinians fear could spark civil war. The internal unrest has worsened since Abbas called last month for early elections to break a political deadlock with Hamas. Man at right is unidentified.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK)
The Governor of Hebron, ‘Arif Al Ja’bari; February 27, 2006.
MaanImages/Mamoun Wazwaz
Newly elected PLC member Sahar Al Kawasmeh attends a memorial for the vicitims of the attack on the Ibrahimi Mosque, at the Polytechnic Institute at the West Bank city of Hebron; February 27, 2006.
MaanImages/Mamoun Wazwaz
Palestinian deputy mayor of Nablus, Mahdi al-Khamdali of Hamas, talks on a mobile phone after his release by Fatah gunmen Monday, Jan. 8, 2007.
(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
Nasser Al-Kidwa, the Palestinian Foreign Minister and former Palestinian Observer to the U.N., speaks to the media at the U.N. in this Aug. 11, 2004 file photo.
(AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
Mohammad Hashem Al-Masry (Hamas), newly elected vice mayor of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, speaks at a meeting on March 14, 2006.
MaanImages/Khaleel Reash
Wealthy Palestinian businessman Munib al-Masri, seen here in 2004, has called for an interim government of experts, pending no agreement on a national unity cabinet. Masri said he was speaking in the name of the local private sector.
(AFP/File/Joel Saget)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders Khaled Al-Batsh (C), Khader Habib (R) and Abu Hani AL-Najar arrive to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza June 24, 2006.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Newly-elected PLC member Mohamad Jamal Al-Natsheh (Hamas), currently in jail in Israel
Photo: MaanImages, 9 Mar 06
Senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, Kamal Al Nirb, gives a speech during a press conference in Rafah Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip December 27, 2005.
MAANnews/Hatem Omar
Hamas member Jamela Al-Shanti attends the inaugural session of the new Hamas led Palestinian Parliament in Gaza City February 18, 2006.
MAANnews/Wesam Saleh
Maher Taher, the representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Damascus, talks to the media Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007.
(AP Photo / Bassem Tellawi)
Jihad Al-Wazir, the acting Palestinian Minister of Finance, speaks during a press conference in the West Bank town of Ramallah February 7, 2006.
MAANnews/Mushir Abdelrahman
Palestinian Youssef al-Zahar, a leader of the Hamas-led Executive Force, arrives in Gaza October 3, 2006.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Reyad Ali, Hamas candidate newly-elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council; February 1, 2006.
MAANnews/Rami Swidan
Fateh candidate for the Palestinian Parliament Nabil Amro gives a press conference in Nablus city February 5, 2006.
MAANnews/Rami Swidan
Adnan Asfour, Hamas candidate newly-elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council; February 1, 2006.
MAANnews/Rami Swidan
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative council, attends a session in the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank town of Ramallah August 24, 2005.
MAANnews/Charlotte de Bellabre
Member of the politburo of the Palestinian People's Party (PPP). (Interview)
Photo: Palestine Media Center, 8.8.05
Newly elected PLC member Muheeb Awwad speaks during an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 27, 2006.
MaanImages/Charlotte de Bellabre