The Hamas Movement has said that Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to freeze contacts with Israel in response to its recent measures at the Aqsa Mosque is “meaningless without ending his security collaboration with it.”
In Twitter remarks Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri also said that Abbas’s decision would be “pointless” without backtracking on his punitive measures against Gaza and giving the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank a free hand to defend its own people.
Abbas announced on Friday the suspension of his authority’s contacts with Israel to pressure it to revoke its recent security measures at the Aqsa Mosque.
However Abbas did not state if his step would include the security cooperation between the PA and Israel in the West Bank.
