[ 08/02/2010 - 11:28 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Ayman Taha, the political leader in Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip, has asserted Sunday that the security situation in the West Bank and the measures against Hamas cadres there doesn’t help building confidence or ending the political rift.
In an interview with the PIC, Taha said, "The warm welcome accorded by Hamas leaders to Fatah official Nabil Sha'ath was part of ethics and values of the PA government in Gaza and Hamas Movement".
He added that such behavior of Hamas and the PA government in Gaza proves their good intention in achieving the national reconciliation, but, he explained, no reciprocal steps were taken in the West Bank and Fatah faction to prove their good intention too.
He pointed out, "Hamas Movement and its cadres in the West Bank suffer great oppression at the hands of the PA security apparatuses, including denying them organizational, humanitarian, and social freedom among other measures, and they deal with Hamas as if it was a banned Movement".
In this regard, Taha warned that Hamas cadres in the Gaza Strip weren’t encouraged to take unilateral steps to prove their good intention if those steps weren’t reciprocated by the Fatah faction.
"The ball now is in Fatah's court, but it seems to us through the statements of Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo that the bundle of suggestions we have given to Sha'ath didn’t meet the needed positiveness on the part of Abbas", Taha underscored.
He added that Fatah has to choose between coexisting with other factions or seeking help from enemies of the Palestinian people against their Palestinian brothers, and this case should expect similar treatment from other factions.
For his part, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, deprecated the statements of Abbas against the resistance while in Cairo, describing such statements as "defeatist" and do not reflect the aspirations of the Palestinian people.
While meeting Egyptian journalists in Cairo, Abbas alleged that the armed struggle and second Palestinian intifada in the year 2000 had "destroyed our life".
"The return to the armed struggle would destroy our land and our country", Abbas was also quoted as saying in an interview with the British Guardian newspaper.
"This is clear disavowal of Fatah's history and the principles on which Fatah was established", said Abu Zuhri, stressing that the Palestinian people were united on resistance as the strategic option for the liberation of Palestine.
Indeed, what Abbas has said explains the repressive measures taken every day by his forces against the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance activists in the West Bank, he pointed out.
On Monday, Abbas security forces kidnapped eight Hamas supports in the West Bank governorates of Tulkarem and Nablus, a number of them university students.
Hundreds of Hamas cadres and supporters were detained in Abbas's jails across the West Bank as part of the security coordination between the PA in Ramallah and the IOF troops.
In the same context, Palestinian lawmaker and Hamas political figure MP Salah Al-Bardawil reiterated his Movement's keenness on achieving national reconciliation, describing it as "strategic option" for Hamas.
However, he stressed that Hamas Movement won't sign the Egyptian paper till its reservations on it are taken into consideration.
"It seems that Egypt started to deal indifferently with Hamas's calls, and it seems that Egypt wants to be sure that Hamas bows to Egyptian demands to sign the paper without further discussion; but we want to make it clear that Hamas won't bow to pressures and won't sign the paper without its reservations being taken into account". Bardawil underlined.
On the assassination of Hamas's military leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh at the hands of the Mossad agents, Bardawil pointed out that the incident calls on Hamas to adopt two things, the first is a deterrent action against the Israeli occupation at the time and in the way it suits it, and the second is to review its security procedures to be in harmony with the changes in the security map.
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