(Washington Times) Hamas and other militant groups are discussing the formation of an "emergency" government to take charge in the event of an Israeli evacuation of the Gaza Strip, said a leading Hamas spokesman. Ghazi Hamid, editor of a Hamas-controlled weekly, said, "The [Palestinian Authority] cannot take responsibility in this situation and we should look to a new leadership that can run the situation." "There is a dialogue among the Palestinian factions - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah - to create a new leadership....We've spent 10 years under the current one and we've gotten nothing," he said.
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