Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that he would meet with Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haneya, with whom Abbas would receive the line-up of the new cabinet.

Abbas made the announcement at a news conference held at Rafah crossing on the borders between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

"After we look at cabinet there would be the well-known legal measures," he told the reporters, adding the cabinet list is going to the Legislative Council to get the vote of confidence and then the ministers should go for the sworn-in before the president and then the cabinet would assume its duties.

Haneya, who is also a senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), is set to present the list late on Sunday in Gaza.

Abbas said he still didn't see those names or the political platform until now.

"I will hear from Haneya then I will decide whether to agree on it or not," said Abbas. "When I want to decide (whether to accept the cabinet's formation or not), I would never hear from any particular side."

Winning the Jan. 25 legislative elections by a landslide, Hamas, which calls for Israel's destruction, has become the dominant faction in the parliament.

Earlier, Abbas' Fatah movement and two other Palestinian parties had decided not to join the Hamas-led government, which meant Hamas' efforts to form a coalition government had failed.

Also in the day, Abbas announced that an urgent meeting would be held in Tel Aviv later on Sunday to discuss a mechanism to solve the crisis of getting food supplies into Gaza Strip.

Abbas said the meeting would be attended by Palestinian, American, European, Israeli and Egyptian representatives.

Citing security concerns, Israel has closed the crossing for most of the past two months.

The closure was supposed to end on Thursday after Israeli holiday of Purim, but it has been extended following the Israeli raid of a Jericho prison in the West Bank last Tuesday.

Palestinians sources said earlier on Sunday that the Gaza Strip is suffering serious shortages in basic food items, especially flour, the basic food for the Palestinians, as Israel keeps the crossing closed.

Source: Xinhua