31 aug 2015
Chairman of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mishaal Sunday called for real partnership in the political, military, and security decision-making.
We need democracy and election to build up our national institutions, but we also need a real partnership, he said.
“We all have to bear responsibility whether in the West Bank, or Gaza, or within the Green line, or Jerusalem, or the diaspora.”
Mishaal’s statements came during the engagement ceremony of Palestinian Ambassador's daughter in Qatar.
Mishaal revealed during the ceremony that he received a phone call from chairman of the Palestinian National Council Salim Zanoun during which they both stressed the importance of national unity.
"I would like to assure you that the wind shifts in our favor as there is a long-lasting decline in Israel's image in the world," he said addressing the Palestinian people.
"Only unity and steadfastness will force the world to respect our decision and rights," Mishaal emphasized.
He concluded by expressing gratitude and appreciation for Qatar’s generosity and hospitality toward the Palestinian community.
We need democracy and election to build up our national institutions, but we also need a real partnership, he said.
“We all have to bear responsibility whether in the West Bank, or Gaza, or within the Green line, or Jerusalem, or the diaspora.”
Mishaal’s statements came during the engagement ceremony of Palestinian Ambassador's daughter in Qatar.
Mishaal revealed during the ceremony that he received a phone call from chairman of the Palestinian National Council Salim Zanoun during which they both stressed the importance of national unity.
"I would like to assure you that the wind shifts in our favor as there is a long-lasting decline in Israel's image in the world," he said addressing the Palestinian people.
"Only unity and steadfastness will force the world to respect our decision and rights," Mishaal emphasized.
He concluded by expressing gratitude and appreciation for Qatar’s generosity and hospitality toward the Palestinian community.
30 aug 2015
Ismail Haneyya, deputy chairman of Hamas political bureau, met at noon Sunday the Consul General of Turkey in Jerusalem Mustafa Sarnic who arrived in Gaza along with a financial delegation on Sunday via Erez crossing.
Members of Hamas political bureau also attended the meeting, including Mahmoud al-Zahhar, Ziyad al-Dhadha, Gazi Hamad, Usama al-Issawi and Taher al-Nounu. The Turkish Consul Mustafa Sarnic was escorted by the Turkish Professor Jovan Sak, the Executive Chairman for Policies and Economic Studies Institute, along with a group of consultant engineers.
The Turkish official along with his delegation will hold a series of meetings in the blockaded Gaza Strip. Besides, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Gaza, he will hold a meeting with heads of financial firms in the Strip along with a number of Palestinian officials in Gaza.
Members of Hamas political bureau also attended the meeting, including Mahmoud al-Zahhar, Ziyad al-Dhadha, Gazi Hamad, Usama al-Issawi and Taher al-Nounu. The Turkish Consul Mustafa Sarnic was escorted by the Turkish Professor Jovan Sak, the Executive Chairman for Policies and Economic Studies Institute, along with a group of consultant engineers.
The Turkish official along with his delegation will hold a series of meetings in the blockaded Gaza Strip. Besides, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Gaza, he will hold a meeting with heads of financial firms in the Strip along with a number of Palestinian officials in Gaza.
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, which marks August 30, the four Palestinian young men have been kidnapped for 11 days reportedly by the Egyptian authorities.
On August 19, anonymous gunmen intercepted a deportation bus in Sinai en route from Rafah border crossing to Cairo airport, they opened fire at the bus and took four passengers to an unknown destination, according to sources in Hamas Movement.
The Egyptian authorities, which are in charge of the Palestinian passengers deported to Cairo Airport, haven't commented on the incident in spite of Hamas's attempts to know the circumstances of the incident and the passengers' whereabouts.
Hamas said that it will not let this incident pass unnoticed, and stressed that the Egyptian authorities are fully responsible for the lives of the Sinai captives.
United Nations expert groups on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances called for establishing rules and protocols that guarantee the immediate search for disappeared persons across the world.
The expert groups said: "Over the last year, the committee has been working on 246 recent cases of enforced disappearances perpetrated all over the world".
In conjunction with the kidnap incident, Palestinians have launched hashtag #release_the_abductees calling for revealing the fate of the four kidnapped Palestinians.
On August 19, anonymous gunmen intercepted a deportation bus in Sinai en route from Rafah border crossing to Cairo airport, they opened fire at the bus and took four passengers to an unknown destination, according to sources in Hamas Movement.
The Egyptian authorities, which are in charge of the Palestinian passengers deported to Cairo Airport, haven't commented on the incident in spite of Hamas's attempts to know the circumstances of the incident and the passengers' whereabouts.
Hamas said that it will not let this incident pass unnoticed, and stressed that the Egyptian authorities are fully responsible for the lives of the Sinai captives.
United Nations expert groups on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances called for establishing rules and protocols that guarantee the immediate search for disappeared persons across the world.
The expert groups said: "Over the last year, the committee has been working on 246 recent cases of enforced disappearances perpetrated all over the world".
In conjunction with the kidnap incident, Palestinians have launched hashtag #release_the_abductees calling for revealing the fate of the four kidnapped Palestinians.
The Consul General of Turkey in Jerusalem Mustafa Sarnic along with a financial delegation is to visit the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday via Erez crossing.
Maher al-Tabba, Director of Public Relations and Information in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Gaza, said the Turkish Consul Sarnic will be escorted, in his visit to Gaza, by the Turkish Professor Jovan Sak, the Executive Chairman for Policies and Economic Studies Institute, along with a group of consultant engineers.
Tabba pointed out that the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Gaza will hold a meeting with the Turkish delegation at the presence of the Consul Mustafa Sarnic as well as heads of financial firms in the Strip along with a number of Palestinian officials in Gaza.
Maher al-Tabba, Director of Public Relations and Information in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Gaza, said the Turkish Consul Sarnic will be escorted, in his visit to Gaza, by the Turkish Professor Jovan Sak, the Executive Chairman for Policies and Economic Studies Institute, along with a group of consultant engineers.
Tabba pointed out that the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Gaza will hold a meeting with the Turkish delegation at the presence of the Consul Mustafa Sarnic as well as heads of financial firms in the Strip along with a number of Palestinian officials in Gaza.
Anwar Faraj Abu al-Ghalban, 23
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has reported that one of its fighters was killed, Saturday, in a tunnel accident, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
On its webpage, the al-Qassam said Anwar Faraj Abu al-Ghalban, 23 years of age, died while working in a tunnel, and that the slain fighter is from Khan Younis city.
The Brigades said it will continue its operations and activities, including digging siege-busting tunnels, and military training, until ending the Israeli occupation, and the liberation of Palestine.
Dozens of fighters, and tunnel workers, have been killed in similar accidents, while many were killed after the Israeli army bombarded tunnel areas as they were working in them.
Many Palestinians in Gaza, not affiliated with the armed resistance, work in tunnels to provide food to their families due to the deadly Israeli siege on the coastal region.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has reported that one of its fighters was killed, Saturday, in a tunnel accident, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
On its webpage, the al-Qassam said Anwar Faraj Abu al-Ghalban, 23 years of age, died while working in a tunnel, and that the slain fighter is from Khan Younis city.
The Brigades said it will continue its operations and activities, including digging siege-busting tunnels, and military training, until ending the Israeli occupation, and the liberation of Palestine.
Dozens of fighters, and tunnel workers, have been killed in similar accidents, while many were killed after the Israeli army bombarded tunnel areas as they were working in them.
Many Palestinians in Gaza, not affiliated with the armed resistance, work in tunnels to provide food to their families due to the deadly Israeli siege on the coastal region.
29 aug 2015
Palestinian lawmaker Mona Mansour, from the Hamas parliamentary bloc, has condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) security practices against the citizens in the West Bank as "antinational and inhumane."
In press remarks on Friday, MP Mansour said that "such practices reflect that the PA has lost its compass and is confused about the real enemy of the Palestinian people."
She also said that the incidents of raiding homes of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails by the PA security forces is considered shameful by the Palestinian people, who struggle for their freedom and liberation from the occupation.
The lawmaker added that the Palestinian men and women in Israeli jails must receive all respect and appreciation for their steadfastness and the sacrifices they made for the Palestinian people and must not suffer twice by breaking into their homes while they are in prison.
She also underscored that the detainment and torture of citizens and the confiscation of their personal belongings by the PA security apparatuses as part of their security collaboration with the occupation are acts of treason against the Palestinian people and their national cause.
In press remarks on Friday, MP Mansour said that "such practices reflect that the PA has lost its compass and is confused about the real enemy of the Palestinian people."
She also said that the incidents of raiding homes of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails by the PA security forces is considered shameful by the Palestinian people, who struggle for their freedom and liberation from the occupation.
The lawmaker added that the Palestinian men and women in Israeli jails must receive all respect and appreciation for their steadfastness and the sacrifices they made for the Palestinian people and must not suffer twice by breaking into their homes while they are in prison.
She also underscored that the detainment and torture of citizens and the confiscation of their personal belongings by the PA security apparatuses as part of their security collaboration with the occupation are acts of treason against the Palestinian people and their national cause.
Arab Organization for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) urged the European Union (EU) to pressure the Palestinian Authority (PA) into stopping human rights violations committed against Palestinians in the West Bank.
In its new report, the AOHR affirmed that “PA Preventive and Intelligence Services committed human rights violations against Palestinian people who are already suffering under Israeli occupation as more evidence emerges of collective political arrests and detainees being brutally tortured.”
AOHR urged civil society institutions in the Occupied Territories to confront the rampant torture at PA detention centers.
The report pointed to the PA Security Forces’ recent crime in Nablus during which they brutally attacked Alyan Zamel family, considering it a war crime against people who are supposed to be protected under Geneva Convention.
In a separate report, the organization revealed that it had gathered several testimonies documenting many cases of torture over the past few weeks at intelligence centers in Nablus and Bethlehem. Forms of physical abuse included beatings with hands and batons, and lashings in addition to verbal abuse.
The Organization held the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, fully responsible for these crimes and expressed its disappointment over the failure of donor countries, especially the EU, to intervene by halting aid to PA security forces despite documented reports of atrocities committed against Palestinians who are already suffering under Israeli occupation.
In its new report, the AOHR affirmed that “PA Preventive and Intelligence Services committed human rights violations against Palestinian people who are already suffering under Israeli occupation as more evidence emerges of collective political arrests and detainees being brutally tortured.”
AOHR urged civil society institutions in the Occupied Territories to confront the rampant torture at PA detention centers.
The report pointed to the PA Security Forces’ recent crime in Nablus during which they brutally attacked Alyan Zamel family, considering it a war crime against people who are supposed to be protected under Geneva Convention.
In a separate report, the organization revealed that it had gathered several testimonies documenting many cases of torture over the past few weeks at intelligence centers in Nablus and Bethlehem. Forms of physical abuse included beatings with hands and batons, and lashings in addition to verbal abuse.
The Organization held the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, fully responsible for these crimes and expressed its disappointment over the failure of donor countries, especially the EU, to intervene by halting aid to PA security forces despite documented reports of atrocities committed against Palestinians who are already suffering under Israeli occupation.
Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement Ramadan Shallah revealed Friday that al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, did not mind rocket fire on Israeli targets in support of the hunger striker Mohamed Allan.
During a televised interview, Shallah said that his movement’s armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, was ready to fire rockets at Israeli targets when the hunger striker Mohamed Allan was in very critical condition.
Al-Qassam Brigades did not mind the rocket fire at that time, but they demanded to be informed in advance of the zero hour in anticipation of any possible Israeli retaliation, he explained.
“There is no individual decision. Hamas is a resistance group, and Gaza is a resistance project.”
In another context, Shallah said that the truce agreement is a temporary measure that could be broken in case of an Israeli rashness.
Shallah hailed Allan’s strong determination and legendary steadfastness, considering his victory on Israeli jailers as a victory for all the Palestinian people.
"We took a firm decision to target Israel in case of losing Khader Adnan and Mohamed Allan during their hunger strikes," he pointed out.
On the other hand, the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad denied any relation to the rocket fire in Syrian Golan Heights, saying that his group has no armed presence outside Palestine.
During a televised interview, Shallah said that his movement’s armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, was ready to fire rockets at Israeli targets when the hunger striker Mohamed Allan was in very critical condition.
Al-Qassam Brigades did not mind the rocket fire at that time, but they demanded to be informed in advance of the zero hour in anticipation of any possible Israeli retaliation, he explained.
“There is no individual decision. Hamas is a resistance group, and Gaza is a resistance project.”
In another context, Shallah said that the truce agreement is a temporary measure that could be broken in case of an Israeli rashness.
Shallah hailed Allan’s strong determination and legendary steadfastness, considering his victory on Israeli jailers as a victory for all the Palestinian people.
"We took a firm decision to target Israel in case of losing Khader Adnan and Mohamed Allan during their hunger strikes," he pointed out.
On the other hand, the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad denied any relation to the rocket fire in Syrian Golan Heights, saying that his group has no armed presence outside Palestine.
28 aug 2015
Hamas has called for the various Palestinian factions not to participate in the Palestinian National Council session that will be held in mid-September.
The movement said in a press statement: “We call on all Palestinian factions not to get involved in this nonsense that threatens Palestinian unity and interests.”
The movement described the call for a National Council meeting as a “coup” against national consensus. It says that it holds the Fatah leadership responsible for the implications of this move.
In an interview with Palestinian radio on Thursday morning, Salim Zaanoun, the head of the Palestinian National Council, said that he held a lengthy meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman on Wednesday, and agreed to hold an ordinary session of the council on 15 September in Ramallah.
President Abbas announced on 24 August that he was resigning from the PLO’s Executive Committee along with a number of others in a move that was seen by observers as a means to justify holding a National Council meeting, in according with the law of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
The National Council serves as the PLO’s parliament. It includes representatives of the Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine. It was founded in 1948, but has not held a regular session since 1996. It is the highest authority representing the Palestinian people at home and in the diaspora.
The council includes 740 members representing all factions (except Hamas and Islamic Jihad), members of the Legislative Council, representatives of the unions, and independents.
The movement said in a press statement: “We call on all Palestinian factions not to get involved in this nonsense that threatens Palestinian unity and interests.”
The movement described the call for a National Council meeting as a “coup” against national consensus. It says that it holds the Fatah leadership responsible for the implications of this move.
In an interview with Palestinian radio on Thursday morning, Salim Zaanoun, the head of the Palestinian National Council, said that he held a lengthy meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman on Wednesday, and agreed to hold an ordinary session of the council on 15 September in Ramallah.
President Abbas announced on 24 August that he was resigning from the PLO’s Executive Committee along with a number of others in a move that was seen by observers as a means to justify holding a National Council meeting, in according with the law of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
The National Council serves as the PLO’s parliament. It includes representatives of the Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine. It was founded in 1948, but has not held a regular session since 1996. It is the highest authority representing the Palestinian people at home and in the diaspora.
The council includes 740 members representing all factions (except Hamas and Islamic Jihad), members of the Legislative Council, representatives of the unions, and independents.
Families of the four kidnapped students, who were abducted in Sinai while on their way to Cairo, staged a sit-in outside the Egyptian Embassy in Gaza Strip, calling for revealing their whereabouts.
The abducted youths’ families launched an appeal for their release, calling on Egyptian authorities to make all possible efforts for their safe return.
The participants held photos of the four kidnapped young men along with banners stressing their right to freedom of movement.
The families also called on Egypt to reveal their sons’ whereabouts especially that they were abducted in Egyptian territory.
Egypt is responsible for their protection and safe return, the families said.
The families also called on PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas and human rights institutions to immediately intervene for their sons’ release.
On Wednesday evening, armed men stopped a bus that was transferring passengers from Rafah crossing to Cairo Airport, just a short distance after the border crossing, and abducted four Palestinians.
The abducted youths’ families launched an appeal for their release, calling on Egyptian authorities to make all possible efforts for their safe return.
The participants held photos of the four kidnapped young men along with banners stressing their right to freedom of movement.
The families also called on Egypt to reveal their sons’ whereabouts especially that they were abducted in Egyptian territory.
Egypt is responsible for their protection and safe return, the families said.
The families also called on PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas and human rights institutions to immediately intervene for their sons’ release.
On Wednesday evening, armed men stopped a bus that was transferring passengers from Rafah crossing to Cairo Airport, just a short distance after the border crossing, and abducted four Palestinians.
Four European delegations on Thursday arrived in the Gaza Strip through Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing on brief visits.
An official source at the Rafah border crossing told Anadolu news agency that deputy foreign minister of Poland Konrad Pawlik accompanied by nine other officials arrived in Gaza to meet UNRWA and government officials.
The same source added that three other delegations from Britain, Germany and Denmark also entered Gaza yesterday through Beit Hanoun crossing in order to meet with officials from the UN and Palestinian ministers.
There is still no information if those delegations will meet with officials from the Hamas Movement.
An official source at the Rafah border crossing told Anadolu news agency that deputy foreign minister of Poland Konrad Pawlik accompanied by nine other officials arrived in Gaza to meet UNRWA and government officials.
The same source added that three other delegations from Britain, Germany and Denmark also entered Gaza yesterday through Beit Hanoun crossing in order to meet with officials from the UN and Palestinian ministers.
There is still no information if those delegations will meet with officials from the Hamas Movement.
Hamas has denied rumors on having removed the name of Ghassan Kanafani from one of Gaza’s schools, saying Kanafani is, and will forever remain, a key Palestinian icon.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement Thursday that Hamas has held contacts with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The Ministry assured Hamas that the school still bears the same name, he added.
Abu Zuhri said Hamas will never allow any party to show any sign of disrespect towards Palestinian national icons.
For his part, undersecretary of the Ministry of Education in Gaza, Ziad Thabet, denied rumors that the tag of a school bearing Ghassan Kanafani’s name in Rafah city, to the south of Gaza, might have been changed to the name of Marmara.
He said a new school for girls bearing the name Marmara and adjacent to Ghassan Kanafani’s was inaugurated last year and will start classes with the launch of the new academic year.
He added that the Marmara school is independent of the Ghassan Kanafani school and has a different teaching staff.
According to the official, the ministry can never change the tags of schools and institutions bearing the names of such revolutionary and outspoken national figures as Ghassan Kanafani.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement Thursday that Hamas has held contacts with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The Ministry assured Hamas that the school still bears the same name, he added.
Abu Zuhri said Hamas will never allow any party to show any sign of disrespect towards Palestinian national icons.
For his part, undersecretary of the Ministry of Education in Gaza, Ziad Thabet, denied rumors that the tag of a school bearing Ghassan Kanafani’s name in Rafah city, to the south of Gaza, might have been changed to the name of Marmara.
He said a new school for girls bearing the name Marmara and adjacent to Ghassan Kanafani’s was inaugurated last year and will start classes with the launch of the new academic year.
He added that the Marmara school is independent of the Ghassan Kanafani school and has a different teaching staff.
According to the official, the ministry can never change the tags of schools and institutions bearing the names of such revolutionary and outspoken national figures as Ghassan Kanafani.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is constructing a $13 million palace in the West Bank, despite the country being crippled by financial woes, Newsweek magazine reported Wednesday.
The project, titled the Presidential Guest Palace in Surda, Ramallah, is listed as an ongoing project on the official website of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development & Reconstruction (PECDAR). It is due to take two years to complete, though the project's start date is not clear from the website.
The complex will include a 4,700-square-meter guest palace and two helipads, as well as a 4,000-square-meter administrative building. It will be constructed over a total land area of 27,000 square meters. PECDAR said on the website that the project will be financed by the Palestinian Ministry of Finance.
The objectives of PECDAR, as listed on its website, include "coordinating the flow of international assistance for the benefit of the Palestinian people", and "identifying investment projects and other activities to be financed by the donor countries." It is accountable to a Board of Trustees, headed up by Abbas.
Most of the other ongoing projects listed on PECDAR's website are being funded by foreign donors, including a $4.5 million drug warehouse in Nablus being funded by the French government and a $7.2 million judicial court complex in Hebron (al-Khalil), funded by the Government of Canada.
PECDAR was not immediately available to comment on the purpose of the palace and how it would benefit the Palestinian people.
Palestine has been beset by financial crises throughout 2015. The Palestinian government adopted an emergency budget in March after donor countries failed to transfer $5.4 billion in aid that had been pledged in October, following the 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza.
Palestine was also hit by Israel's decision to freeze monthly Palestinian tax revenues of $127 million in protest of Palestine's decision to apply for membership of the International Criminal Court and sue Israel for war crimes against Palestinian civilians.
Israeli news site Arutz Sheva, which reported the project, said the fact that the palace was considered a national priority "throws into further relief the massive corruption in the PA." However, the cost of the palace is dwarfed by that being spent on the construction of a new combined residence and office in Jerusalem for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The project, approved by the Israeli government in May 2014, is estimated to cost $188 million.
The project, titled the Presidential Guest Palace in Surda, Ramallah, is listed as an ongoing project on the official website of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development & Reconstruction (PECDAR). It is due to take two years to complete, though the project's start date is not clear from the website.
The complex will include a 4,700-square-meter guest palace and two helipads, as well as a 4,000-square-meter administrative building. It will be constructed over a total land area of 27,000 square meters. PECDAR said on the website that the project will be financed by the Palestinian Ministry of Finance.
The objectives of PECDAR, as listed on its website, include "coordinating the flow of international assistance for the benefit of the Palestinian people", and "identifying investment projects and other activities to be financed by the donor countries." It is accountable to a Board of Trustees, headed up by Abbas.
Most of the other ongoing projects listed on PECDAR's website are being funded by foreign donors, including a $4.5 million drug warehouse in Nablus being funded by the French government and a $7.2 million judicial court complex in Hebron (al-Khalil), funded by the Government of Canada.
PECDAR was not immediately available to comment on the purpose of the palace and how it would benefit the Palestinian people.
Palestine has been beset by financial crises throughout 2015. The Palestinian government adopted an emergency budget in March after donor countries failed to transfer $5.4 billion in aid that had been pledged in October, following the 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza.
Palestine was also hit by Israel's decision to freeze monthly Palestinian tax revenues of $127 million in protest of Palestine's decision to apply for membership of the International Criminal Court and sue Israel for war crimes against Palestinian civilians.
Israeli news site Arutz Sheva, which reported the project, said the fact that the palace was considered a national priority "throws into further relief the massive corruption in the PA." However, the cost of the palace is dwarfed by that being spent on the construction of a new combined residence and office in Jerusalem for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The project, approved by the Israeli government in May 2014, is estimated to cost $188 million.
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, renewed its position of holding Egypt responsible for the safety of the four Palestinians abducted in Sinai a few days ago. It demanded immediate release of the kidnaped four.
The Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil told Quds Press that the media attack which has been practiced by the Egyptian authorities is very far from reality and does not reduce the responsibility of Egypt for the Palestinian abducted men.
He held Egypt is to blame for the abduction of the four Palestinians since the kidnapping operation was carried out in Egypt, before the Egyptian security and in the security square of Rafah border crossing.
The Hamas leader opined that the abduction operation does not serve anybody but Israel, saying “it is a stab to Gaza at the time when relations between Gaza and Egypt are getting improved”.
Regarding relations between both sides, Bardawil said “the Egyptian side has been taking unilateral steps in this regard. He said” we do not have any expectations in terms of the Egyptian threats of military intervention in Gaza made by some Egyptian media men”.
“Hamas is a liberation movement aims at resisting the Israeli occupation and has no hostility against any Arab country”, Bardawil said.
Unidentified armed men stopped, on Wednesday evening, a bus carrying on Palestinian passengers and kidnapped four of them. The passengers were coming from Rafah border crossing and heading to Cairo Airport.
The Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil told Quds Press that the media attack which has been practiced by the Egyptian authorities is very far from reality and does not reduce the responsibility of Egypt for the Palestinian abducted men.
He held Egypt is to blame for the abduction of the four Palestinians since the kidnapping operation was carried out in Egypt, before the Egyptian security and in the security square of Rafah border crossing.
The Hamas leader opined that the abduction operation does not serve anybody but Israel, saying “it is a stab to Gaza at the time when relations between Gaza and Egypt are getting improved”.
Regarding relations between both sides, Bardawil said “the Egyptian side has been taking unilateral steps in this regard. He said” we do not have any expectations in terms of the Egyptian threats of military intervention in Gaza made by some Egyptian media men”.
“Hamas is a liberation movement aims at resisting the Israeli occupation and has no hostility against any Arab country”, Bardawil said.
Unidentified armed men stopped, on Wednesday evening, a bus carrying on Palestinian passengers and kidnapped four of them. The passengers were coming from Rafah border crossing and heading to Cairo Airport.