Abu Zuhri slams Fayyad’s condemnation of Al-Khalil operation

[ 15/06/2010 - 02:47 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Tuesday that Salam Fayyad’s condemnation of Al-Khalil operation reflected a culture hostile to the resistance option supported by the Palestinian people.

Spokesman Abu Zuhri added in a statement that Fayyad’s remarks also reflected the nature of the Palestinian Authority’s culture and its political and security association with the Israeli occupation.

He stressed that Fayyad blatantly declared his involvement in suppressing the resistance, arresting its leaders and collaborating with the occupation when he denounced the heroic operation south of Al-Khalil city.

Fayyad strongly condemned on Monday Al-Khalil operation which led to the death of an Israeli occupation soldier and the injury of three others and vowed to arrest the resistance fighters responsible for the incident.

In another context, senior Hamas official Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil said that if Mahmoud Abbas’s latest remarks in which he opposed ending the siege before achieving the inter-Palestinian reconciliation was true, he would be an accomplice in Israel’s siege and the killing of Gaza people.

Dr. Bardawil emphasized in a statement to the Palestinian information center on Monday that such remarks proved further that Abbas’s alleged keenness on the reconciliation was always a publicity stunt.



Fayyad: “Violence” against Israeli Police Harms Palestinian Cause

15/06/2010 Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Monday denounced an attack on an Israeli police vehicle and said his government would work to prevent such incidents from occurring again. "Experience has shown that violence harms the Palestinian national cause," Fayyad said in a statement hours after a senior Israeli police officer was killed and two others wounded by a Palestinian resistance ambush near the West Bank city of al-Khalil.

The "Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Imad Mughniyeh Group" claimed responsibility for the attack, reported the Palestinian news agency Ma'an.

The attack came as a response to the raid on the Gaza aid flotilla, according to the report.
However, later on Monday, Israel Radio reported that the Fatah armed wing denied allegations of involvement in the attack.

The resistance fighters opened fire on the police vehicle as it traveled on Route 60, carrying officers to stations in Khalil. The Israeli occupation forces began scouring the area for the “attackers”. Initial Israeli investigations suggest the shooting was a planned ambush. "This was definitely a terrorist attack. It was carried out on an ordinary police vehicle and forces are now combing the scene," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Following the ambush, the head of the “Civil Administration”, the Israeli military authority that “governs” the West Bank, accused Palestinian Authority leaders of not doing enough to prevent “violence”. Brig-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said the attack was a "serious incident" that could not be overlooked.

Israeli settler leaders turned their heat on the government, saying the attack was a result of government moves to lift restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Two Israelis were hurt last month by broken glass when bullets hit their car on a different stretch of the same road. The Imad Mughniyeh Group of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for that attack, which it said was in response to Israel's deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip on May 31.

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