Can the new prime minister achieve the goals of the Palestinian government?. The book assigning Palestinian economist Muhammad Mustafa to form a new Palestinian government included many goals, the most prominent of which related to Gaza and its reconstruction.
The Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front, and National Initiative movements issued a joint statement in which they criticized the assignment. The response quickly came with a sharp attack from the Fatah movement, accusing Hamas of causing Israel's reoccupation of the Gaza Strip and "a new catastrophe for the Palestinian people"