Ketegangan tinggi di Jalur Gaza kendati ada pembentukan pemerintah persatuan pada 17 Maret antara Gerakan Perlawanan Islam (HAMAS), yang berkuasa, dan faksi sekuler Fatah, pimpinan Presiden Mahmoud Abbas,
Tensions are running high in Gaza despite the formation of a unity government on March 17 between the ruling Islamist Hamas movement and President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction.