HANIYEH: WE HAVE FIRM CONVICTION TO ACHIEVE PALESTINIAN RECONCILIATION
Gaza City, 23 Jumadil Akhir 1435/23 April 2014 (MINA) – Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, says “We will welcome to Gaza in coming days a valuable national delegation from the West Bank. I express my happiness and I welcome it, they are in their home and among their families and brothers.”
“I emphasize the following: we have a firm conviction as a movement, and as the Government, of the need to end the division and achieve Palestinian reconciliation as a national necessity of vital importance to our cause and our people of all factions and groups,” Ismail Haniyeh says in a statement published by Gaza Government Media Office.
He says, We all recognise the escalation of Zionist threats to our cause and our people, the targeting of Jerusalem and Al Aqsa, the commission of other crimes against our people everywhere such as occupation, settlement construction, judaization, the blockade, killings, detentions and displacement.
At the same time they are attempting to liquidate the Palestinian cause and its core components, to eliminate the rights of our people through every means and method available to them – military, security, economic, political and negotiations pressure, according to ALRAY Palestinian Media Agency report quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).
Taking all of the above into account, and based on our national responsibilities, we will continue our efforts with our brothers in Fatah and with various Palestinian groups and individuals at home and abroad, in order to accelerate Palestinian reconciliation and end the split.
We emphasise our continuing commitment to all previous reconciliation agreements, particularly those of Cairo and Doha, and our commitment to work in partnership together to implement all five reconciliation files as one package – formation of a unity government, elections, the Palestine Liberation Organization, public freedoms and community reconciliation.
We are serious about meeting the aspirations of our people during the upcoming discussions, and in consolidating a real partnership for policy and decision-making based on what was signed in regard to those issues, to build a solid basis for strengthening national Palestinian unity in the face of the common enemy, and to promote our national interests.
We also reaffirm our preparedness to do what is required of us to achieve national partnership and to take joint responsibility for managing Palestinian political decision-making, and achieving consensus on an effective national strategy for struggle.
Through this, as Palestinians, we can achieve our national goals in liberate our land from occupation, owning real sovereignty, and restore Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and Islamic and Christian holy places, and the right of return for our people and building an independent Palestinian State, and the release of all our prisoners in the jails of the enemy.
Welcome to the visiting delegation Karim hoping God would bring his presence among us, and the efforts of our people and factions and personalities everywhere, as aspire of reconciliation, harmony and reunification, unity, and the word, the power of the position, on the road to victory and liberation and return. (T/P02/E01)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
