GAZA, (PIC)--
MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, a political leader in Hamas Movement, has described Wednesday the Egyptian claims accusing Palestinian factions of being behind the rocket attack on the seaports of Al-Aqaba and Eilat as contradictory.
In a press release he made over the claims, Bardawil recalled that Egypt had denied that the rockets were fired from Sinai then said they were fired from there but by Palestinians from Gaza Strip, and urged the Egyptian authorities to check those allegations because they could give Israel the pretext to attack Gaza and to condemn Egypt.
Hamas categorically denied any involvement in the incident, stressing that its battle against the Israeli occupation is limited to occupied Palestine and that it was and still is keen on the security of the Arab countries, especially Egypt and Jordan.
After persistently denying the rockets were fired from the Sinai peninsula, an Egyptian security source who preferred not to be identified alleged that the rockets were indeed fired from Sinai but were lunched by Palestinian factions operating in the area in clear indication to use the Palestinians as scapegoat.
“The Israeli narration that the missiles were fired from the Sinai was merely fabrication because internal Israeli sources confirmed that the Israeli occupation army was conducting military drills in the area”, Bardawil underlined.
He also deprecated attempts to involve Hamas in the “fabricated” attack, underscoring that the Movement’s strategy of not using any Arab soil against the Israeli occupation is known for all parties, so, he added, such allegations should not be voiced at all in order not to give the Israelis the reason to attack Gaza Strip.
In Gaza city, the PA government categorically rejected the Egyptian claims and described them as “non-professional”, stressing that the Palestinian resistance doesn’t launch attacks against the Israeli occupation from abroad.
The government also opined that such allegations were made to justify and persist in the four-year-old Israeli siege on Gaza Strip.
In the same context, the Islamic Jihad, one of the Palestinian resistance factions in occupied Palestine, absolutely denied any involvement in the rocket attack, underscoring that the battle against the Israeli occupation is inside Palestine and not any where else.
At least one Jordanian national was killed when one of the rockets exploded near the Aqaba port on the northern tip of the Red Sea. After investigating the incident, Jordanian security sources confirmed that the rockets were fired from Sinai despite the Egyptian denial.
Nevertheless, Jordan’s Islamic Action Front party didn’t buy the Israeli-Egyptian story, accusing the Israeli occupation army of firing the lethal missile on Al-Aqaba. It pointed out that the rockets, which landed on Eilat, had caused no damage.
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