[ 26/12/2009 - 08:37 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas spokesman Hammad Al-Ruqub said that the building of the steel wall on the Palestinian-Egyptian borders violates all diplomatic norms and tactics, asserting that the Egyptian national security can be protected by fostering the strength of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.
During a massive rally organized by Hamas in Gaza city on Friday, spokesman Ruqub stated that the Palestinian people were expecting Egypt, on the first anniversary of the Israeli war,
to allow vital needs into Gaza, and not to tighten the blockade in compliance with the American dictates.
The spokesman appealed to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to stop building the wall that would sentence the Gaza people to death.
Thousands of Palestinian citizens in Gaza participated in massive rallies organized by Hamas on Friday in Gaza city in protest at the steel wall being built on Gaza borders.
For his part, senior Hamas leader Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar said Thursday that controlling borders between Egypt and Gaza was acceptable, but the policy of building walls is unacceptable.
In a press statement to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, Dr. Zahhar added that the border area is an area for families and relatives from both sides and making business through tunnels takes place between ordinary people, and the Palestinian government has nothing to do with it.
The Hamas official expressed his rejection of the shooting incidents that happened on the common borders, which targeted construction equipment used to build the wall.
For his part, Hamas lawmaker Dr. Yunus Al-Astal said Friday that Zio-American pressures are behind the Egyptian decision to build a steel wall on its borders with Gaza, warning that this wall is detrimental to the Egyptian people’s interests.
Egyptian writer and former deputy editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram newspaper Salama Salama, also criticized the Egyptian authorities for building the steel wall, noting that there is something wrong in the Egyptian policymaking which made the brothers become enemies.
In an article published Friday in the Egyptian Shorouq newspaper, Salama said that this abrupt upheaval in policies, intentions, enmities and alliances is perplexing and makes it difficult to understand the real dimensions of these changes.
“Does that mean that Egypt started to gradually diverge from its political, historic and moral obligations towards the Palestinian cause? Or that the Israeli-American policies which were imposed on the region had succeeded in altering the equations and driving a wedge between Egypt and a big sector of the Palestinian people", the writer questioned.
He stressed that Egypt is responsible for creating the conditions that made Israel tighten its blockade on Gaza and close all crossings including the Rafah border crossing for intermittent long periods leading to the strangulation of the Palestinians in Gaza and depriving them of food, medicine and fuel, except insufficient quantities as permitted by Israel.
“So it was natural to see smuggling operations from Egypt to Gaza expand and hundreds of tunnels dug to pass the needs of one and a half million Gazans,” the writer added.
The writer underlined that the building of this wall would leave Gaza an easy prey to Israel and is considered an Egyptian bias in favor of Mahmoud Abbas and his authority in Ramallah against Hamas.
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