JERUSALEM, June 16 — The Fatah faction, crushed in Gaza, moved to consolidate control over the West Bank today, seizing public buildings, including the Parliament, and preparing to swear in a new government that did not include its rival, Hamas.
The moves seemed to solidify the split between Palestinians, after five days of factional fighting ended on Thursday with Hamas, an Islamic group, in full control of the crowded coastal strip of Gaza. They also seemed to raise the risk of violence spreading to the occupied West Bank, where the secular and nationalist Fatah is dominant but Hamas retains pockets of strength — and some armed fighters, though the Israeli Army keeps them largely underground.
But with Hamas leaders keeping a low profile in the West Bank, there was no resistance today as Fatah gunmen took over the Parliament in Ramallah and government buildings in Hebron and Nablus. There were reports that other buildings controlled by Hamas, including charity and political offices, were seized.
Foreign governments strongly protested Hamas’s takeover of Gaza — and Palestinian leaders said today that an American official had offered concrete support for a new non-Hamas government led by an independent economist, Salam Fayyad, even if limited only to the West Bank.
Mapa de Cisjordania con la franja de Gaza. Click para ampliar


La organización Fatah se ha movido a la región de Cisjordania y han tomado el control de edificios controlados por Hamás, incluído el Parlamento.

El movimiento solidificó la separación palestina, posterior a que la fuerza de seguridad de Hamás hubiera tomado el control del cuartel general de de Al Fatah en la franja de Gaza.

El jueves, el Presidente de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina y líder de Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, había destutuído al Primer Ministro Ismail Haniya (que formaba parte de Hamás) luego del incidente en la franja de Gaza. El Presidente apuntó a Salam Fayyad como primer ministro de un gobierno de emergencia según reportó un consejero del presidente.

"Gaza pertenece a toda la gente palestina y no sólo a Hamás", dijo Ismail Haniya.

Debido a que no hay una presencia decisiva de fuerzas de Hamás en Cisjordania, hoy 16 de junio la fuerzas de Fatah tomaron el Parlamento de Ramala y edificios del gobierno en Hebrón y Nablus. Cuando Fatah penetró en el Parlamento, sus soldados trataron repetidamente de detener al vicepresidente del Parlamento, Hassan Khuraishah, aunque los intentos fueron