Prime Minister Designate Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday he would form a Palestinian unity government within three weeks, Reuters reported. Haniyeh was speaking a day after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formally asked him to draw up the government which would mainly comprise Hamas and Fatah. "I am full of hope that we will be able to accomplish this government in less than three weeks," Haniyeh told worshippers before Friday prayers in Gaza City. He urged Arab leaders to endorse the government, agreed at talks in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and said he had spoken to several Arab leaders by telephone to lobby support for an end to a U.S.-led boycott of the Palestinian Authority.
