HANIYEH: SECURITY COLLABORATION WITH ISRAEL BLOCKS A THIRD INTIFADA

West Bank, 8 Rabiul Awwal 1436/30 December 2014 (MINA) – Deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh condemned the Palestinian Authority’s security coordination with the Israeli occupation as “a dagger in the chest of the resistance,” and said it blocks the outbreak of a third intifada (uprising) in the West Bank.

“The security coordination with the Zionist occupation must be stopped, and the resistance must be protected…The settlement process failed and the Palestinian people do not need frivolous negotiations,” Haneyya stated during his meeting with several Arab satellite channels on Monday evening, The Palestinian Infromation Center (PIC) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

Commenting on the Palestinian-Arab draft resolution on Palestine, the Hamas official said that the statehood bid that had been submitted to the UN Security Council goes against the Palestinian people’s rights and contained overtones of readiness to waive the right of return.

He called for developing a new national strategy to protect the resistance and the national constants.

As for the national reconciliation, he said that his Movement always backs the national unity, although it reached a critical juncture because of the failure of the unity government to assume its responsibilities in Gaza away from any partisan considerations.

“The government has to work on ending the blockade, consider the suffering of Gaza, and prepare for the elections,” he underlined.

“The unity government deals with the Gaza Strip selectively, and I am not optimistic that the current visit (by the government delegation) will be able to address the real problems in the Strip. Abu Mazen has to issue an edict calling for necessarily executing all what has been agreed upon, and we will not allow Gaza to be cut off from the Palestinian project.”

Pertaining to the issue of captive Israeli soldiers in Gaza, Haneyya said he had no information other than what had already been announced by al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas in this regard. (T/P011/R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)