The Fatah-Hamas deal allows for a five-week period to form a technocratic interim government, with new elections in six months. A senior leader from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas' main Islamist rival, said this structure could derail the agreement by giving outside parties an opportunity to interfere. Hamas and Fatah are betting this will not come to pass. The Israeli Cabinet unanimously agreed to halt peace talks in response to the deal and weighed sanctions on the Palestinian National Authority. However, Fatah is gambling that the Israelis will not opt for an embargo on the Palestinian territories for fear of worsening the situation. A Palestinian National Authority collapse would mean chaos in the West Bank at a time when there is already turmoil in all the countries surrounding Israel.