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	2007 March Hamas agreed to share power in the Palestinian government in order to end the international embargo and put a stop to fighting between Hamas and the relatively moderate Fatah party. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have come to an impasse over a number of issues including the release of Israeli Col. Shalit and the smuggling of weapons into Gaza from Egypt. February Members of Fatah and Hamas met in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in order to put an end to violence between the two groups through an arrangement to share power. January Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is being investigated for his role in the sale of a major bank while serving as finance minister. 2006 December 12/29 Israel allowed Egypt to ship a cache of weapons to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to aid in his struggle with Hamas. According to Israeli officials, Iran has been sending as much as $15 million a month to the Hamas movement enabling it to build a paramilitary force parallel to Abbas' security apparatus. 12/26 Israeli PM Olmert tries to boost moderate PA President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle with Hamas by removing some of the roadblocks in the West Bank, offering $100 million in frozen tax income and indicating he might release some Palestinian prisoners. 12/24 Abbas and Olmert hold summit. 12/11 Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, inadvertently acknowledged that Israel has nuclear weapons. 12/11 Three young sons of Fatah loyalist, Col. Baha Balousheh, were killed on their way to school. Balousheh was targeted in a failed attack by Hamas militants in September 2006. 12/9 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected to call early elections in a bid to oust the Hamas government, end Western economic sanctions and open the way for peace talks with Israel. November 2006 The Palestinian Hamas Cabinet and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh agreed to step down to be replaced by experts with ties to, but not members of Hamas, in hopes of ending the crippling boycott of aid put in place in March. June 2006 In early June 2006, Popular Resistance Committees leader, Jamal Abu-Samhadana, was killed by Israeli Defense Forces. On Sunday, June 25th, the Palestinian militant faction, Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) finished a tunnel dug from Gaza to Israel and launched an attack. The offensive ended with the kidnapping of 19-year old Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit on June 25th. The same day, Israelis found the body of an 18-year old Jewish settler from the West Bank who had been kidnapped and executed by the same group. Israel rounded up and detained more than two dozen Hamas elected officials on June 28. Palestinians feared that the "jailing of so many Hamas politicians at once could paralyze a government already beset by an international aid boycott. Israel bombed the Palestinian Interior Ministry building in downtown Gaza City and other targets on June 30th. Israelis say the attack was intended to end Qassam (Kassam) rocket fire from Gaza into the Israeli village of Sderot, undermine the Hamas Damascus headquarters and perhaps topple the Hamas government. April 2006 Street fighting erupts between Hamas and the more moderate Fatah Party when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, attempted to limit Hamas' policing power.

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