Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah concluded on Thursday a four-day official visit to the Gaza Strip and headed back to Ramallah the base of his government.
Shortly before he left the enclave al-Hamdallah popped in al-Shifaa Hospital where he garnered further proof of the exacerbated medical crisis rocking the besieged territory.
“The government is ready to assume its duties in anticipation of next week’s meeting between the national factions in Cairo” al-Hamdallah told reporters.
He further pledged that his government will do its best to work out socio-economic crises in Gaza: “As long as good will and determination are there all problems will be solved.”
Al-Hamdallah along with his cabinet ministers arrived in the besieged coastal enclave on Monday coming from Ramallah after Hamas dissolved the administrative committee it had formed to run the affairs of Gaza to make way for Hamdallah’s government to assume full duties in the Strip.
On Tuesday the government held its first meeting in Gaza for the first time in years.
Gazans hope that the cabinet’s trip to the enclave would usher in a new chapter in intra-Palestinian reconciliation and bring hope that 10 years of division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip would finally come to an end.
Details of the reconciliation are going to be discussed on Tuesday when officials from Fatah and Hamas meet in Cairo to resolve differences over important issues.
