By Mohammed Assadi
RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 18 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet, bolstered by Western promises to resume aid, vowed on Monday to exert its authority over the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
"The government will pursue its jurisdiction over all parts of the homeland, regardless of what happened in Gaza," Abbas's Information Minister Riyad al-Malki told reporters after the new government met in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
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Abbas's forces are focused on trying to prevent any spillover of the fighting from Gaza to the West Bank, where Fatah holds sway under Israeli occupation and where Hamas has threatened reprisals.
"We still do not have a clear plan," Malki said.
Asked how he would enforce the law in violence-prone Gaza, Abbas's interior minister in charge of security, Abdel-Razzak Yahya, said: "I swear to God I do not know."
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