Palestinian government employees have announced that they are to end a strike started four months ago in protest at unpaid wages.
The announcement was made by the civil servants‘ union, which is dominated by the Fatah movement of Mahmoud Abbas, the president, in Ramallah in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority is the largest employer in the West Bank and Gaza, and has about 165,000 people on the payroll.
Since Hamas came to power in March, it has paid only partial salaries because revenues have been severely depleted by Israeli actions and an international aid boycott.
The workers ended the strike without assurances that they would be paid in full.
Most of the civil servants had already returned to work before the announcement.
About 80,000 members of the security forces had stayed on the job, and 40,000 teachers and 12,000 health workers announced a return to work in November.