[1] Bridge sale offer rescinded. From [2] Reuters, with thanks to Captain Diggs:

GAZA (Reuters) - The governing Hamas movement reached a political agreement on Tuesday with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but said it would continue to refuse to recognise Israel.

Abbas had sought to soften Hamas's hard line towards Israel -- the movement's charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state -- in the hope of ending a U.S.-led boycott of the cash-strapped Palestinian government by Western donor nations.

Hamas insisted it was sticking to its "agenda of resistance" against Israel.

"The document included a clear clause referring to the non-recognition of the legitimacy of the Occupation," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, using the Islamist group's term for Israel.