NABLUS (PIC)– Hamas Movement has affirmed that it was open for any national initiative that aims at unleashing a comprehensive and objective inter-Palestinian national dialogue with “open minds”.
The Hamas’s affirmation was uttered on Tuesday by its spokesman in the West Bank who unveiled that a number of initiatives were presented to Hamas by a number of concerned Palestinian parties saying that Hamas was ready to deal with those initiatives as an onset of national dialogue based on “mutual trust and credibility”.
In this regard the spokesman urged the immediate halt of defamatory media campaigns and black propaganda unleashed by the PA media apparatuses in Ramallah city that tarnish image of the Palestinian people and harm the Palestinian issue as a whole.
He explained that over the past month Hamas watched the PA chief Mahmoud Abbas seeking the help of the US and Israel against Hamas and sometimes alleging that Al-Qaeda group has a foothold in Gaza Strip in a bid to instigate the world against his own people.
He asserted that what had happened in Gaza Strip was of a security dimension and not a political one affirming that Hamas will not negotiate the Palestinian national constants at any cost.
Earlier Tuesday Hebrew media revealed that Israeli premier Ehud Olmert has warned PA chief Mahmoud Abbas not to engage in any form of dialogue with Hamas Movement regardless of the circumstances in addition to excluding Hamas from any future PA national unity government.
Abbas for his part assured Olmert of continuing his fight against the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and of collecting their arms before dissolving them the sources revealed adding that Olmert in return rejected Abbas’s request to halt IOF incursions in the West Bank.
Around 250 Palestinian captives were set to be released from Israeli jails as a gesture of “goodwill” to Abbas in a bid to strengthen his (Abbas) stand against Hamas.
But Hebrew sources revealed that the bulk of those captives were Fatah cadres whose hands were “not stained with Israeli blood” and that most of them were almost ending their jail terms.
Olmert assured Abbas that he will exclude Hamas prisoners in Israeli jail from that Israeli “gift”.
More than 12000 Palestinian captives including 130 women and more than 350 minors are languishing in Israeli jails many of them for more than a decade now.
