Hamas on Tuesday rejected that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can unilaterally form a transitional government in the coming days.

Al-Hayyat, an Arabic daily based in London, reported that Abbas will unilaterally form a government after the Islamic movement and Abbas's Fatah faction failed to agree on a political platform for a unity government replacing Hamas' administration of the Gaza Strip and Abbas' government of the West Bank.

Abbas's intention to form a government is "an attempt to put pressure on the conferees and extort their views in the dialogue," said Ismail Radwam, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza.

According to the report, Abbas will form the government when he comes home from an international tour in response to an Egyptian proposal of forming two administrations in Gaza Strip and West Bank with a factional committee to coordinate between the Hamas and Fatah governments.

Radwan said his movement did not hear of such proposals. "We reject any attempt to anticipate the results of the ongoing dialogue in Cairo," Radwan added. "Any such government would be illegal and will be outside the agreement if it was reached."

The unity government, that Hamas and Fatah failed to agree on its program, is sought to restore political unity to the Gaza Strip and West Bank. In 2007, Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces and seized control of the Gaza Strip.