# Abbas dismisses Haniyeh after Hamas takes Gaza

Date: 2007

## The fact

On 14 June 2007 Hamas took control of Gaza. [Mahmoud Abbas](/people/mahmoud-abbas) dismissed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and appointed Salam Fayyad. Reuters recorded the split. Hamas’s Gaza interior after this date is not his command. Do not invent casualty figures as Contribution.size.

## Context

The 2006 Hamas legislative victory is parent. He did not sit as every Gazan fighter.

2006 PLC election is parent. 29 April 2021 postponement is a later child. Keep Abbas dismisses Haniyeh after Hamas takes Gaza on 2007-06-14 separate from neighbouring 14 June 2007 Gaza split, 29 April 2021 postponement, and 24 June 2021 Banat death.

The President of the [Palestinian Authority](/organizations/palestinian-authority) and PLO Executive Committee chair can issue decrees in the West Bank, accredit diplomats, and apply to UN bodies. He does not write Israeli Knesset statutes, Hamas military orders in Gaza after 2007, or UN Security Council resolutions.

## Evidence and sources

WAFA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is no-election legitimacy: a completed split into West Bank decree rule and Hamas Gaza.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Hamas took Gaza on 14 June 2007; Abbas dismissed Haniyeh the same crisis.

Not established: A unique later Gaza death integer as his Contribution.size.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He dismissed Haniyeh and appointed Fayyad. He did not command Hamas after this date.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Abbas dismisses Haniyeh after Hamas takes Gaza, not a later speech about Abbas dismisses Haniyeh after Hamas takes Gaza.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Abbas dismisses Haniyeh after Hamas takes Gaza on 2007-06-14 is not a licence to treat every later WAFA communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Abbas dismisses Haniyeh after Hamas takes Gaza into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Hamas took Gaza. He dismissed Haniyeh and appointed Fayyad. He did not command Hamas after this date. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Mahmoud Abbas: https://factrail.ai/people/mahmoud-abbas

## Drivers

- Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power

## Sources

- https://www.wafa.ps/
- https://www.reuters.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ps-gaza-split-2007