A power-sharing arrangement between rival Palestinian groups has begun to materialize, but the work is far from over. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh announced on Oct. 12 that feuding Palestinian parties Hamas and Fatah reached a reconciliation agreement during talks held in Cairo. The new arrangement grants administrative control over the Gaza Strip to a unity government formed between the two groups. (Sources vary on the date of the handover — some say Nov. 1, others Dec. 1.) Hamas and Fatah have been in heated conflict for the past decade over administrative control of the Gaza Strip. In 2006, an electoral upset forced the West Bank-based Fatah to include Hamas in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). But the partnership dissolved after Hamas formed a separate governing body designed to prevent Fatah, which holds a majority in the PNA, from asserting control over the Gaza Strip.