A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement blamed the ruling Hamas movement on Thursday for the failure of inner-Palestinian talks over forming a coalition government to replace the current Hamas-led one.

Maher Meqddad accused Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) of trying to monopolize power through its hard stances in spite of a series of Palestinian and Arab proposals to overcome the hardships the Palestinians were undergoing.

"Hamas fights any attempt or proposal to remove it from power," Meqddad told reporters in Gaza, adding Hamas also rejects calls for forming a technocrat government of professional independents " despite that fact that this was not a proposal by Fatah".

"If moves failed to form the new government, the crisis would be solved by early elections or public referendum," Meqddad clarified.

Key donors cut direct aid to the Palestinians after Hamas took the rein of the Palestinian government in late March because it has refused to meet three international demands of recognizing Israel, renouncing violence and accepting previous peace deals with Israel.

Talks between Abbas and Hamas leaders to set up a national unity government have been deadlocked due to Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel, a key Western demand.

Source: Xinhua