Jimmy Carter to intervene in Palestinian domestic crisis, Haniyeh approves

[ 22/07/2007 - 09:20 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Hamas Movement has reaffirmed that the current Palestinian internal equilibrium urges all Palestinian factions to sit together and to start national dialogue in order to resolve the current political standoff in the Palestinian arena.

The Movement also welcomed the initiative presented by the PFLP and the National Initiative of MP Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, expressing readiness to deal with it although it disagrees with a number of points in it.

For his part, the Movement’s spokesman in the West Bank welcomed the release of PFLP political leader Abdul Rahim Malloh from Israeli jails, and hailed the press conference he made after his release.

He also expressed hope that Malloh will play a vital role in patching up inter-Palestinian political differences, affirming that Malloh is a big leader who won’t accept any “political bribe”, and he won’t mortgage himself to the anti-resistance agenda.

Furthermore, the spokesman affirmed that Hamas Movement was and still is welcoming any Palestinian effort with the aim to bridge the gap and to bring all Palestinian factions back to the table of negotiations.

On Friday, the legitimate prime minister of the PA caretaker government Ismail Haneyya affirmed that any election process in the PA must be preceded with national harmony and must have constitutional foundations.

PA chief Mahmoud Abbas was commissioned by the Fatah-controlled PLO’s central council to call for early presidential and legislative elections in the PA.

In this context, Hamas highlighted the importance of holding any election process based on Palestinian national constants, and not connected to the US and Israeli agenda.

On Friday, the Israeli occupation government released 255 Palestinian captives, the great majority of them from Fatah faction who almost finished their jail terms, as an incentive for Abbas and his “illegitimate” government in Ramallah city to curb the honorable Palestinian resistance. Malloh is a PFLP leader but was included in the deal.

Many Palestinian political analysts viewed the deal as a “political” bribe for Abbas.

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DFLP combatants shell Israeli military post near Gaza


Date: 22 / 07 / 2007 Time: 11:59


Gaza – Ma'an – The armed wing of the democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the National Resistance Brigades, launched a homemade projectile at the Israeli military post in Kisufim, east of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday.

The brigades asserted that the shelling is a justified response to Israeli aggression and incursions in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli military court files 8,000-page indictment list against Qassam commander

[ 22/07/2007 - 06:17 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Israeli military prosecution has tabled an 8,000-page indictment list against Ibrahim Hamed, the former commander of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, in the West Bank.

Hamed refused to stand up when the military judges entered the court in Ofer prison west of Ramallah city in absolute challenge to the court. He demanded his full rights as a prisoner, including allowing his family to visit him and medical treatment to pains in his right foot and broken teeth.

Hamed said that he was still detained in solitary confinement in Ramle prison since his arrest more than a year and a half ago. He is banned from mingling with other prisoners and he only sees and deals with his jailor.

The court ordered Hamed and his relatives out of court only minutes after the hearing started at the pretext of speaking with his family members and his refusal to stand for the judges.

The lawyers said that the preliminary reading of the charges indicate that the military prosecution was holding him responsible for the killing of more than 40 Israelis other than hundreds of wounded in addition to recruiting Palestinians in the Qassam Brigades among others.

Meanwhile, the family of prisoner Bilal Issa, 26, from the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, appealed for providing proper medical treatment for him. He has been held for a year now and still has a year and a half to serve, his family said, noting that he was wounded before his arrest and did not receive necessary treatment.

Relatives of Issa, a father of five children and the only breadwinner of his ailing mother and three sisters, appealed for his release in view of his condition.

Haneyya: Those rejecting national dialogue will realize they were mistaken

[ 22/07/2007 - 09:43 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The prime minister of the legitimate PA caretaker government Ismail Haneyya has reiterated his Movement's assertion on unconditional inter-Palestinian dialogue to resolve the political impasse in the Palestinian arena.

Haneyya’s remarks were uttered as he addressed hundreds of new graduates of the Islamic University in Gaza Strip Saturday, affirming, “We will remain faithful to the Cairo and Makkah agreements, and we shall never turn our back to them”.

“Those rejecting the national dialogue will sooner or later realize that they were wrong”, added Haneyya amidst overwhelming applaud from the audience.

Furthermore, Haneyya urged the “free and honorable” men of Fatah faction to exploit the current political developments in the Palestinian arena, and to bring their faction back to the national track after it was hijacked by a “suspicious” trend within it.

“We are advocating national dialogue but we will not beg for it; yet we will not relax our call for national dialogue in spite of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and his retinue’s continued rejections for such calls”, the premier underlined.

He also highlighted that his government and Hamas Movement were and still are respecting the Palestinian legitimacy that, he said, couldn’t be divided.

“We respect the PA legitimacy that couldn’t be divided, and as others (in allusion to Abbas) were democratically elected, we (Hamas Movement) were also democratically elected and derived our legitimacy from the martyrs’ blood and not from the enemy”, he underscored.

Furthermore, Haneyya deplored allegations parroted by Hamas’s detractors in the Palestinian arena that the Movement was unilaterally monopolizing the political, financial, and security aspects in Gaza Strip, emphasizing that his government rules Gaza Strip in its capacity as the legitimate government that was democratically elected by the Palestinian people, and “didn’t come atop US or Israeli tanks”.

However, Haneyya welcomed the participation of any Palestinian party in administering the country so as to collectively shoulder the Palestinian national burden.

“There is no truth to allegations of political monopoly or political arrests in Gaza Strip, and we again and again affirm that what had happened in Gaza Strip was a necessary step”, the premier furthermore asserted.

A number of Fatah leaders in Gaza Strip and in the PLO in addition to the great majority of the Palestinian people had hailed Hamas’s military action in Gaza Strip against the mutiny trend of Fatah MP Mohammed Dahalan and his associates.

The PA government is relentlessly working for restructuring the PA security apparatuses based on national agenda away form factionalism or foreign agenda, Haneyya confirmed.

He also rejected any solution based on the political vision of US president George W. Bush, saying that the Palestinian state that Bush is calling for is of unknown borders.

Hence, he vowed adherence to the Palestinian national constants, explaining that the Palestinian people will continue their quest for freedom and independence despite the harshness of that road.