Government of the State of Palestine from June 2013

The June 2013 Palestinian government was sworn in as the Emergency Cabinet by President Mahmoud Abbas on June 6, 2013 and was sworn in again in September 2013. The cabinet was not democratically legitimized and was not recognized by Hamas , which in turn exercised power over the Gaza Strip .

Government formation

The Prime Minister of the Government Cabinet of 2012 , Salam Fayyad , had submitted his resignation in April, 2013. In the months before, there had been mass protests due to rising gas prices, corruption, rising living costs and - due to the financial crisis of the Palestinian Authority - unpaid salaries. The main target of the demonstrators was the resignation of Fayyad's government. In fact, the agency's financial bottlenecks were the result of President Abbas' course of unilaterally pursuing the international recognition of an independent Palestine, contrary to the will of the USA and Israel, as both states had reacted by restricting financial aid. The relationship between Abbas and Fayyad was considered strained and before Fayyad's resignation rumors had spread that Abbas wanted to fire him because of political disagreements.

Probably in response to this dispute, Abbas ensured that he had more influence over the new cabinet. He appointed two deputy prime ministers, of whom Muhammad Mustafa was responsible for economic affairs and should report directly to Abbas. Commentators said that Abbas wanted to bring the finance department under his control. According to a source, the cabinet should hardly be able to decide anything without the approval of the president.

The new Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was previously Rector of Nablus University , from where he recruited a total of six of his ministers. That, and the fact that Health Minister Jawad Awwad was the only designated Hebronite in the cabinet, led to protests from Hebrew residents against the new government. Finally, Hamdallah appointed Anwar Abu Aishe, a councilor in Hebron, as minister of culture.

On the Hamas side, the appointment of a new government was a source of irritation, as Fatah and Hamas agreed in the 2012 Doha and Cairo agreements that a unity government would soon be formed.

composition

Composition of the government from June 6, 2013 to June 2, 2014
Official	Department / Office	Political party
Rami Hamdallah	prime minister	Fatah
Ziad Abu Amr	deputy prime minister	Independently
Mohammed Mostafa	Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs
Riyad Al-Malki	Foreign minister	Independent (Ex- PFLP )
Said Abu Ali	Interior minister	Fatah
Shukri Bishara	Finance minister
Ali Muhanna	Minister of Justice
Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri	Minister for Education and Higher Education
Kamal al-Sharafi	Minister for Social Affairs	Independent (Ex- PFLP )
Mahmoud Al-Habbash	Minister for Religious Affairs
Rabiha Diab	Minister for Women's Affairs	Fatah
Issa Qaraqe	Minister for Prisoners	Fatah
Mahir Ghneim	Minister for Public Works and Housing	Fatah
Adnan Al-Husseini	Minister for Jerusalem Affairs
Jawad Naji Hirzallah	Economics Minister
Rula Maaya	Minister for Tourism and Antiquities	Independent (Christian)
Safa Nasser El-Din	Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technology	Independently
Walid Assaf	Minister of Agriculture
Jawad Awwad	Minister of Health
Saed Al-Kuni	Minister for Local Affairs
Nabil Dmeidi	Minister of transport
Muhammad Abu Ramadan	Minister of Planning
Ahmad Majdalani	Minister of Labor	PSF
Anwar Abu Aishe	Minister of Culture
Fawwaz Aqil	Secretary General of the Cabinet (ministerial)	Fatah

Individual evidence

↑ 15. Government takes oath of office Website of the Diplomatic Mission of Palestine in Germany, accessed on July 27, 2014
↑ Kochava Rozenbaum: Palestinian Authority Government Takes Oath For Second Time. In: israelnationalnews.com. September 20, 2013, accessed April 19, 2014 .
^ Clashes, stone-throwing break out in West Bank price protests. Ma'an News Agency, September 10, 2012, accessed June 4, 2014 .
↑ Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad files resignation. In: format.at. April 13, 2013, accessed June 4, 2014 .
↑ ^a ^b Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians protest against new PA prime minister. September 6, 2013, accessed July 15, 2014 .
↑ http://www.palaestina.org/fileadmin/Daten/Dokumente/Regierung/Liste_der_16._Regierung.pdf (PDF;? KB)
↑ الحكومة السادسة عش (15/9/2013-حتى الآن). Palestinian Authority government, archived from original on July 27, 2013 ; Retrieved August 3, 2014 .
↑ Personalities: Who's Who ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Middle East: Two Christian Ministers

[1] 15. Government takes oath of office Website of the Diplomatic Mission of Palestine in Germany, accessed on July 27, 2014

[2] Kochava Rozenbaum: Palestinian Authority Government Takes Oath For Second Time. In: israelnationalnews.com. September 20, 2013, accessed April 19, 2014 .

[3] Clashes, stone-throwing break out in West Bank price protests. Ma'an News Agency, September 10, 2012, accessed June 4, 2014 .

[4] Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad files resignation. In: format.at. April 13, 2013, accessed June 4, 2014 .

[jpost-5] Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians protest against new PA prime minister. September 6, 2013, accessed July 15, 2014 .

[6] ttp://www.palaestina.org/fileadmin/Daten/Dokumente/Regierung/Liste_der_16._Regierung.pdf (PDF;? KB)

[7] الحكومة السادسة عش (15/9/2013-حتى الآن). Palestinian Authority government, archived from original on July 27, 2013 ; Retrieved August 3, 2014 .

[8] Personalities: Who's Who ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[9] Middle East: Two Christian Ministers