After months without pay, the government, headed by Hamas’s Ismael Haniyeh, was confronted with a serious challenge in September, when civil servants went on strike, demanding to be paid. The differences between the Fatah-led presidency of Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas’s Islamist government spilled into the streets.
经过几个月的拖欠工资，去年九月，公务员罢工，要求支付工资。由哈马斯的哈尼亚领导的政府面临严峻的挑战。法塔赫派总统阿巴斯以及哈马斯伊斯兰政府之间的分歧扩散到街上。阿巴斯威胁举行选举来解决僵局似乎是火上加油。