The Palestinian government in the West Bank has informed Israel that it will stop paying for the electricity Israel sells to the Gaza Strip, according to the Associated Press. “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to exert financial pressure on political rival Hamas to cede control of Gaza, a territory it seized in 2007 from him in bloody street battles… Hamas official Ismail Radwan condemned the move by Abbas.” Two days later, Abbas met with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Cairo to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Al Shorouk reports.

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