The Hamas Movement has refuted the remarks made by de facto president Mahmoud Abbas at the 30th Arab summit held in Tunis affirming that achieving the national unity has always been a top priority for it on the basis of political partnership.
“We affirm that the achievement of the national unity will remain at the top our concerns and priorities and that there is a need for realizing it on the basis of accepting partnership and honoring what was agreed upon in Cairo in 2011” Hamas underlined in a press release on Sunday.
The Movement stressed the importance of having a consensus on a national strategy to confront all the challenges facing the Palestinian cause.
“Abbas’s speech was a historical reiteration of events filled with failure retreats and divisions imposed by his policies that are based on domination and elimination and by his wagering on abhorrent agreements the Israeli occupation and the US administration” Hamas said.
It slammed Abbas for his persistence in ignoring his own people’s sacrifices especially those that took place during the March of Return rallies in Gaza.
“It was very painful that he did not talk about the martyrs and the wounded of our people the agonies of the prisoners the occupation’s violations against them the ongoing aggression against Gaza and the daily killing of peaceful protesters at the gates of the great prison of Gaza” the Movement said.
Hamas also denied Abbas’s claim that his authority had spent half of its budget on Gaza describing his remarks in this regard as lies.
In April 2017 Abbas started to take a series of punitive measures against Gaza which have affected all aspects of life including electricity the medical sector and salaries.
