GAZA, (PIC)-- The indirect talks between the PA in Ramallah and the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) were meant to improve the latter's relations with the American administration and other countries that were dismayed at the current stalemate, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, political bureau member of Hamas, said.
He told Al-Jazeera net on Monday that the indirect talks, which the Israelis yearned to start, would not be of any benefit to the Palestinian people, recalling that direct talks over the past 18 years did not yield anything positive for the Palestinians.
Zahhar said that Hamas rejected the Arab cover for such talks that only allow Israel to carry out its expansionist and judaization policies and plots.
The Hamas leader predicted that the negotiations would only lead to more judaization of Palestinian lands and compromise of national rights.
For its part, the popular front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP) denied reports that Washington had extended any written or verbal guarantees to the PA over an Israeli halt of settlement building in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.
The PFLP said in a statement on Monday that the PLO executive committee, in which the PFLP is a member, did not receive any such guarantees for the sake of resuming direct or indirect negotiations.
The PFLP called on the PA leadership to respect national unanimity resolutions and not to bow to pressures and promises that only target weakening Palestinian steadfastness, unity, and resistance.
The PFLP declared its categorical rejection of the Arab follow up committee's decision backing indirect PA-IOA talks.
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