European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana (L) during a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 05 June 2006. The EU will not let Palestinians down, said after the meeting, expressing hope that a special aid fund that would bypass Hamas would be in place by early next month.Photo by Ahmed Gharabli / Flash90

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana (L) during a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 05 June 2006. The EU will not let Palestinians down, said after the meeting, expressing hope that a special aid fund that would bypass Hamas would be in place by early next month. Photo by Ahmed Gharabli / Flash90

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, waves to European Union Foreign Policy chief Javier Solana, not seen, following their meeting at Abbas' office in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Monday, June 5, 2006. Photo by Ahmed Gharabli /Flash90

Supporters of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Movement gather during a rally in support of Abbas' call for a referendum in the main square of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Monday, June 5, 2006. Abbas intensified his faceoff with the Palestinians' new Hamas rulers on Monday by insisting he would accept no changes to a plan calling for compromise with Israel. Abbas has given Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, until Tuesday to accept the proposal for a Palestinian state alongside Israel, or face a national referendum on the matter. Photo by Ahmed Gharabli / Flash90

GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP- June 5, 2006: Palestinian women cry after an explosion tore through a house killing a Hamas militant in Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip June 5 2006. A Palestinian militant from the Islamist movement Hamas was killed in the explosion, just hours after five people were killed in local clashes, a medical source said. The dead man was named as 30-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim Sari, a member of the ruling Islamist movement's armed Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/ Flash 90

GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP- June 5, 2006: Palestinian woman cadger sits near A civil servant rush to cash machines at the Palestine Bank in Gaza City to check whether they received their salaries 05 June 2006. A group of cash-strapped Palestinian civil servants, who have not been paid since the end of February, began to receive their back salary checks. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/ Flash 90