President Mahmoud Abbas has signed decrees dissolving the Palestinian government and declaring a state of emergency across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an Abbas spokesman says.
"We have decided to do the following, to dismiss Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh," said Tayeb Abdel-Rahim, secretary general of the presidency, reading a statement from Abbas.
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Picture: Shirtless Fatah supporters are led away after Hamas militants took control of Fatah's Preventive Security headquarters, Gaza City.
Hamas fighters overran two of the rival Fatah movement's most important security command centers in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen into the street and shot them to death execution-style. More on WPXI