Palestinians in Gaza celebrate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Tuesday, August 26. After more than seven weeks of heavy fighting, Israel and Hamas agreed to an open-ended ceasefire that puts off dealing with core long-term issues. 
Palestinians inspect the damage to a residential building following several late night Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on August 26. 
Gila, center, mother of 4-year-old Israeli boy Daniel Tragerman, sits next to his grave during his funeral near the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday, August 24. 
Palestinians run away from debris after a bomb from an Israeli airstrike hit a house in Gaza on Saturday, August 23. 
An Israeli soldier smokes a cigarette in a large concrete pipe used as shelter at an army deployment point near the Israeli-Gaza border on Wednesday, August 20. 
Light trails made by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip stand out against the night sky on Tuesday, August 19. Despite efforts to come to a peaceful agreement, Gaza militants launched rockets into Israel on Tuesday, and Israel responded with its own rockets. 
An injured Palestinian man is helped into the Shifa hospital in Gaza City on August 19. 
Police examine the remains of a rocket launched from Gaza that landed near the kibbutz of Yad Mordechay on August 19. 
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on August 19. 
Islam El Masri begins to sort through the rubble of her destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, on Thursday, August 14. 
Israelis gather in Tel Aviv during a protest August 14 calling on the government and the army to end Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza once and for all. 
Smoke rises in Gaza City after an airstrike on Saturday, August 9. 
Israeli soldiers walk past a Merkava tank as they patrol a field near Israel's border with Gaza on August 9. 
A Palestinian boy salvages family belongings from the rubble of a four-story building after an airstrike in Gaza City on Friday, August 8. 
Israelis flee after a rocket fired from Gaza hit the residential neighborhood of Sderot, Israel, on August 8. 
A Palestinian man looks out over destruction in the al-Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City on Wednesday, August 6. 
Displaced Palestinians carry their belongings as they leave a United Nations school in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, to return to their homes Tuesday, August 5. 
The body of Avrohom Wallis is carried during his funeral in Jerusalem on Monday, August 4. Wallis was killed in what Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld called a "terror attack," when a man drove an earthmover into a bus in Jerusalem. 
Israeli soldiers fire a mortar shell toward Gaza from the Israeli side of the border on August 4. 
Palestinians remove rubble from a house hit by an airstrike in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on August 4. 
An Israeli drone circles over Gaza City on Sunday, August 3. 
A Palestinian man sits in a hospital in Rafah, Gaza, on August 3. 
An honor guard caries the coffin of Israeli Lt. Hadar Goldin during his funeral in Kfar-saba, Israel, on August 3. Goldin was thought to have been captured during fighting in Gaza but was later declared killed in action by the Israel Defense Forces. 
A Palestinian boy looks for belongings after an airstrike in Rafah on Saturday, August 2. 
Israeli soldiers walk to their tank at a staging area near the border with Gaza on August 2. 
A young Palestinian carries damaged copies of the Quran from the rubble of the Imam Al Shafaey mosque in Gaza City on August 2. 
Palestinians displaced from their houses return to check their homes in Gaza City on Friday, August 1. 
An Israeli soldier carries a shell as he prepares a tank along the Israel-Gaza border on Thursday, July 31. Israel called up 16,000 additional reservists, bolstering forces for its fight against Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza. 
Smoke rises from a building after an airstrike in Rafah on July 31. 
The parents and a sister of Israeli soldier Guy Algranati mourn during his funeral in Tel Aviv on July 31. 
U.N. workers remove a donkey injured at a U.N.-run school in Gaza on Wednesday, July 30. 
Palestinians walk under the collapsed minaret of a destroyed mosque in Gaza City on July 30. 
Palestinians gather leaflets that fell from an Israeli plane on July 30. The leaflets warned residents of airstrikes in Gaza City. 
Israelis take cover from a Palestinian rocket attack from Gaza during the funeral of Israeli soldier Meidan Maymon Biton, which was held at a cemetery in Netivot, Israel, on Tuesday, July 29. 
Smoke and fire rise above Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike on July 29. 
An Israeli soldier prays on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza on July 29 as smoke billows from the only power plant supplying electricity to Gaza. 
Near the rubble of their home in Rafah, Palestinian men mourn July 29 for people killed during an airstrike. 
A Palestinian man places a portrait of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on the rubble of Haniya's Gaza City home July 29 after it was hit by an overnight airstrike. 
Flares from Israeli forces light up the night sky of Gaza City on July 29. 
Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of 2nd Lt. Roy Peles, an infantry officer who was killed in combat, during his funeral in Tel Aviv on Sunday, July 27. 
During a 12-hour cease-fire in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood on Saturday, July 26, a Palestinian man sits atop a car filled with belongings that were salvaged from a destroyed home. 
Israeli soldiers watch a bomb explode along the border with Gaza before the 12-hour cease-fire on July 26. 
As her brother-in-law Mazen Keferna weeps on the ground, Manal Keferna cries upon discovering her family home destroyed by airstrikes in Beit Hanoun on July 26. 
Palestinians dig a body out of the rubble of a destroyed house in Gaza during the cease-fire on July 26. 
An Israeli soldier mourns at the grave of reserve Master Sgt. Yair Ashkenazy during his funeral at the military cemetery in Rehovot, Israel, on Friday, July 25. Ashkenazy was killed during operations in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces reported. 
A Palestinian man cries after bringing a child to the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya on Thursday, July 24. The child was wounded in a strike on a school that was serving as a shelter for families in Gaza. It's unclear who was behind the strike. The Israeli military said it was "reviewing" the incident, telling CNN that a rocket fired from Gaza could have been responsible. 
Israeli soldiers carry a wounded soldier to a helicopter near the Israel-Gaza border on July 24. 
Israeli soldiers patrol the Israel-Gaza border on July 24. 
A trail of blood is seen in the courtyard of the school that was hit July 24 in the Beit Hanoun district of Gaza. 
An Israeli tank fires toward Gaza from a position near Israel's border on July 24. 
A photograph tweeted by astronaut Alexander Gerst on Wednesday, July 23, shows major cities of Israel and Gaza. Gerst said in his tweet: "My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel." 
A woman in Philadelphia passes by a departure board that shows US Airways Flight 796, scheduled to fly to Tel Aviv, has been canceled on Tuesday, July 22. The Federal Aviation Administration told U.S. airlines they were temporarily prohibited from flying to the Tel Aviv airport after a Hamas rocket exploded nearby. 
Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City on July 22. 
A relative of Israeli soldier Jordan Ben-Simon mourns over his coffin during his funeral in Ashkelon, Israel, on July 22. 
Palestinians inspect destroyed buildings and collect usable items after an Israeli air assault on July 22. 
Israeli soldiers weep at the grave of Israeli Sgt. Adar Barsano during his funeral Sunday, July 20, in Nahariya, Israel. 
Palestinian medics carry a body in Gaza's Shaja'ia district on July 20. 
Israeli soldiers give medical care to soldiers who were wounded during an offensive in Gaza on July 20. 
A Palestinian boy injured during an Israeli airstrike is taken to the hospital by his father in Gaza City on July 20. 
Palestinians flee their homes as Israeli troops focus their firepower on the Gaza town of Shaja'ia on Sunday, July 20. The shelling and bombing killed at least 60 people and wounded 300, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. 
Smoke rises after an Israeli missile hit Shaja'ia on July 20. 
A Palestinian child walks on debris from a destroyed house following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya on Saturday, July 19. 
An explosion rocks a street in Gaza City on Friday, July 18. 
Israeli ground forces move to the Gaza border on July 18. 
Israeli soldiers patrol near the Israel-Gaza border on July 18. 
A relative mourns July 18 during the funeral of Rani Abu Tawila, a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City. 
A Palestinian demonstrator, protesting Israel's military operation in Gaza, runs through smoke July 18 during clashes with Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the Ofer prison in the West Bank village of Betunia. 
This image, made from video shot through a night-vision scope, was released by the Israeli military on July 18. It shows troops moving through a wall opening during the early hours of the ground offensive in Gaza. 
Children stare as Palestinians flee Khan Yunis, Gaza, to safe areas July 18. 
An Israeli tank fires a shell into Gaza on July 18. 
A Palestinian carries a gas cylinder salvaged from the rubble of an apartment building after it was hit by Israeli fire on July 18. 
An Israeli reservist prays July 18 near the Gaza border by Sderot, Israel. 
Flare smoke rises into the Gaza City sky on Thursday, July 17.
- The Palestinian Authority and Hamas agreed to a unity government this year
- But Mahmoud Abbas says Hamas has been operating a shadow government
- A Hamas spokesman says Abbas' comments are baseless
(CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas slammed Hamas over the weekend, raising questions about the future of the Palestinian rivals' unity government.
The Palestinian Authority controls the West Bank, and the militant group Hamas has controlled Gaza. The longtime rivals agreed to a unity government earlier this year, but Abbas accused Hamas of operating a shadow government in Gaza.
"We cannot accept the current state of affairs, and we will not accept a partnership between us and them (Hamas) if their state of affairs remains as it is in Gaza," Abbas said, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
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Peace in place, Gazans return to rubble "There is a shadow government that consists of 27 deputy ministers who run the strip, and the unity government is actually rendered helpless."
Senior Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri fired back at Abbas' comments.
"Abbas' statements regarding Hamas and the resistance are unjustifiable, and the figures and information upon which he based his judgment are baseless," Abu Zuhri said on his Facebook page.
He said the two sides had agreed to hold a meeting soon to continue "go on with the dialogue and to implement the articles of the reconciliation agreement."
The rift stands in stark contrast to Abbas' statements in April on Palestinian reconciliation.
Abbas, the founder of the Fatah political faction, said he was determined to end the division between Fatah and Hamas. He also said the new unity government will recognize Israel, but not as a Jewish state.
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