| The Israeli army will end all coordination with local representatives of the Palestinian Authority once a Hamas-dominated government is sworn in on Wednesday, an officer told AFP on Sunday. “Once the Hamas government is sworn in, we will have no one to talk to on the Palestinian side,” said Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for the government’s district coordination offices (DCO) in the occupied West Bank. “We will not talk to Hamas.” The DCO is an army body in charge of coordinating day-to-day issues with the Palestinians at municipal level. Many town councils in the West Bank are controlled by Hamas after local elections last year. |