DOHA, (PIC)
The member of Hamas political bureau Hussam Badran said that Hamas is keen on achieving the Palestinian national unity to confront the Israeli occupation.
Badran underlined in press statements on Tuesday that Hamas was the party which put forward the option of forming a Palestinian national consensus government in the first weeks of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
He added that the Fatah movement agreed on Hamas’s proposal for the first time, which makes the unity government the subject of consensus among the Palestinian factions.
The Hamas official said that during the meeting a step toward forming a consensus government was agreed in principle, “with the approval of the Palestinian factions, to manage the affairs of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, supervise reconstruction, and also prepare the atmosphere for elections at a later stage.”
Badran said this initiative should not wait until after the war but should proceed even as the conflict continues, expressing belief that establishing such a government could facilitate a ceasefire.
He explained that “the national meetings are not a substitute for the continuation of the resistance,” stressing Hamas’s adherence to the demands of “reaching a permanent and complete ceasefire, the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation army from the Gaza Strip, and securing relief and reconstruction in Gaza.”
Badran stressed that the meeting of the Palestinian factions in Beijing “included 14 Palestinian factions, meaning that it was not a bilateral meeting between Hamas and the Fatah movement.”
He pointed out that the factions, despite the presence of some differences, have agreed on a group of constants, the most important of which are ending the aggression against the Palestinian people and forming a consensus government.
Regarding the PLO, Badran reiterated the necessity of addressing the major problems in its structure, management and even its political program.
“The PLO must include all the Palestinian factions, the components of our people and civil society institutions,” he underscored.
“Yet, the priority now is supporting our people and resistance in the war-torn Gaza Strip, in the field and at the political and media levels,” he concluded.
