Hamas Lauds Understanding With Fatah on Reconciliation
GAZA (Dispatches) – Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas blessed on Saturday the understanding reached with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement regarding the vision over achieving internal reconciliation.
In an emailed press statement, Hamas said that its leadership had just ended meetings on the national reconciliation and reached a draft understanding with Fatah.
"The understanding is not an alternative to the comprehensive dialogue with all other factions. It is an introduction to facilitating reconciliation and ending internal split,” the statement said.
Hamas stressed that the political partnership among all Palestinian factions "is a strategic and obligatory choice for Hamas, Fatah and all other Palestinian political powers.”
The statement called for devoting to the national unity among all the Palestinians, and rebuilding the Palestinian political system "wholly based on democratic principles through holding free, transparent, and comprehensive elections.”
A senior official with Abbas’ Fatah movement also said on Saturday that the movement approved the formation of a unified leadership to develop popular resistance against the Zionist regime.
Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy chief of Fatah, told reporters that the unified leadership would be responsible for developing and activating the popular resistance and the national activities inside and outside Palestine.
He added that "the popular and peaceful resistance would increase the impact and the cost on the Israeli occupation.”
Al-Aloul also said that the unified leadership would make the peaceful resistance a comprehensive one and will focus on protests against measures by the Zionist regime including illegal settlement expansion.
A senior Palestinian official complained on Saturday that the Zionist regime is implementing its plan of annexing large parts of the West Bank by intensifying settlement’s expansion.
"Israel’s plan to build 5,400 new units is an actual implementation of the rejected annexation plan, and Israel hasn’t stopped the annexation plan as it had claimed before,” said Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee, during his interview with official Voice of Palestine radio.
He called on the international community to hold the Zionist regime accountable for keeping the settlement’s activities and violating the international resolutions, warning the occupying regime’s move "would expand the circle of violence, chaos, blood-shedding, and extremism in the Middle East.”
In an emailed press statement, Hamas said that its leadership had just ended meetings on the national reconciliation and reached a draft understanding with Fatah.
"The understanding is not an alternative to the comprehensive dialogue with all other factions. It is an introduction to facilitating reconciliation and ending internal split,” the statement said.
Hamas stressed that the political partnership among all Palestinian factions "is a strategic and obligatory choice for Hamas, Fatah and all other Palestinian political powers.”
The statement called for devoting to the national unity among all the Palestinians, and rebuilding the Palestinian political system "wholly based on democratic principles through holding free, transparent, and comprehensive elections.”
A senior official with Abbas’ Fatah movement also said on Saturday that the movement approved the formation of a unified leadership to develop popular resistance against the Zionist regime.
Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy chief of Fatah, told reporters that the unified leadership would be responsible for developing and activating the popular resistance and the national activities inside and outside Palestine.
He added that "the popular and peaceful resistance would increase the impact and the cost on the Israeli occupation.”
Al-Aloul also said that the unified leadership would make the peaceful resistance a comprehensive one and will focus on protests against measures by the Zionist regime including illegal settlement expansion.
A senior Palestinian official complained on Saturday that the Zionist regime is implementing its plan of annexing large parts of the West Bank by intensifying settlement’s expansion.
"Israel’s plan to build 5,400 new units is an actual implementation of the rejected annexation plan, and Israel hasn’t stopped the annexation plan as it had claimed before,” said Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee, during his interview with official Voice of Palestine radio.
He called on the international community to hold the Zionist regime accountable for keeping the settlement’s activities and violating the international resolutions, warning the occupying regime’s move "would expand the circle of violence, chaos, blood-shedding, and extremism in the Middle East.”