Over more than seven years of internal division, Hamas movement has been reluctant to make reconciliation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah Party in fear it would loose power in the Gaza Strip, the coastal enclave that it seized control in 2007.

Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed (L), Prime Minister ofHamas authorities in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya (C) and secretary-general of the Palestinian Arab Front Jameel Shehadeh pose for a picture after a press conference in Gaza on April 23, 2014. [Xinhua photo]

On April 23, Hamas and Abbas's top delegation signed in Gaza an agreement to start immediate implementation of the reconciliation agreements reached in Cairo in 2011 and in Qatar in 2012.

Analysts said that due to the pressure of losing strong ties with its allies in Iran, Syria and the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, and the pressure on Turkey and Qatar to stop backing the movement, Hamas had no other choice but to join reconciliation to rescue itself and gain back popularity.

Another heavy pressure imposed on Hamas was cutting sources of money and weapons, when the Egyptian army destroyed hundreds of smuggling tunnels underneath the borders between Egypt and Gaza, after the ouster of Egypt's Islamic President Mohamed Morsi last July.

According to the deal, both sides agreed to form a six-month transitional technocrat unity government, chaired by Abbas within five weeks, to prepare for the general elections in early 2014.

Musa Abu Marzooq, a prominent Hamas leader, who followed up implementing the agreements in Gaza, said that the unity government will be technocrat, transitional and will have specific missions, without any ministers from Hamas nor Fatah.

"The new government will have six basic missions to carry out within six months: preparing for general elections, running the daily life in Gaza and the West Bank, reconstructing Gaza, ending the siege, achieving social reconciliation and improving public freedoms," Abu Marzooq told reporters.

Hamas won't rule Gaza alone

Both Hamas and Fatah officials asserted that the new transitional technocrat unity government, headed by President Abbas, will see the light in less than two weeks, which means that Hamas movement won't rule the Gaza Strip alone as it did since the summer of 2007.

Mukhemer Abu Se'da, a Gaza-based political analyst, told Xinhua, "Certainly, when a unity government is formed, Hamas won't be the only power that rules the Gaza Strip. Hamas accepted reconciliation because the only choice remained is to keep what the rest of power it has in hand."

"Hamas leaders want to work hard during the next six months, outside the official frame of a government or a power, in order to fix the damages after the Muslim brothers' collapse in Egypt and gain back its reputation," said Abu Se'da.