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GAZA CITY, -: Palestinian Prime Minister and leader of the Hamas party Ismail Haniya (L) shakes hands with Palestinian Fatah party strongman Mohammed Dahlan, following a vote by MPs approving the long awaited unity government in Gaza City 17 March 2007. The Palestinian parliament today overwhelmingly approved a coalition government uniting the radical Islamist Hamas movement with the secular Fatah of president Mahmud Abbas. Eighty-three members of the 132 member parliament voted in favor of the historic unity cabinet, and three lawmakers voted against. Forty-one MPs are in Israeli prisons and another four were absent from the vote. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)

GAZA CITY, -: Palestinian Prime Minister and leader of the Hamas party Ismail Haniya (L) shakes hands with Palestinian Fatah party strongman Mohammed Dahlan, following a vote by MPs approving the long awaited unity government in Gaza City 17 March 2007. The Palestinian parliament today overwhelmingly approved a coalition government uniting the radical Islamist Hamas movement with the secular Fatah of president Mahmud Abbas. Eighty-three members of the 132 member parliament voted in favor of the historic unity cabinet, and three lawmakers voted against. Forty-one MPs are in Israeli prisons and another four were absent from the vote. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)