Rival Palestinian factions agreed early on Saturday to work together to ease tension that had soared after the governing Hamas group accused some loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas of plotting a “coup attempt.” The Islamist group made the accusation in a statement on Friday, saying the Abbas loyalists planned to storm some public buildings on Saturday. It did not accuse Abbas himself. While Hamas provided no evidence of a plot and officials from Abbas’s Fatah dismissed it as lies, the accusation underlined their increasingly bitter and violent power struggle. The rivals agreed at a meeting in Gaza to keep all their gunmen off the streets on Saturday and allow only the police to patrol. Full Story