Ismail Haneyya Hamas’s leader affirmed on Sunday the Movement’s readiness to resume Palestinian dialogue to hold legislative presidential and National Council elections in succession within 6 months.
Haneyya stated during a televised speech that he received a written reply letter from the President of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen welcoming the content of his message his commitment to holding elections and achieving the principle of partnership in building Palestinian institutions. He also received a letter from Egypt Qatar and Turkey in which they confirmed this position.
“We are facing a new and promising stage for the completion of a Palestinian agreement that opens a new and historic stage for our Palestinian people” he added.
Hamas’s leader added that this dialogue aims to rebuild the Palestinian leadership represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization end the division represented by a unified Palestinian Legislative Council and a unified national government and agree on a national political program as well as agree on the struggle strategy.
He underlined that recently a national dialogue was launched with the Fatah movement and the rest of the Palestinian national factions hosted by friendly countries led by Egypt Qatar Turkey Russia and others. Through this dialogue they were able to complete the Istanbul understandings and to agree on the outcomes of the meeting of the Secretaries-General and then the final dialogue was in Cairo.
During the last Cairo meeting the dialogue was suspended at a specific point related to the elections which is the issue of synchronization. “The reason for our adherence to and the adherence of many factions to the issue of synchronization is the eagerness and desire to rebuild the entire Palestinian political system on the principle of partnership” he stressed.
Haneyya said “We are running out of time and we face real danger as we see what is happening inside Palestine the settlers’ attacks. Also the attempts to annex the Palestinian land and cancel the right of return. Therefore we have dealt positively responsibly and quickly and we understand the need to resume the process of internal Palestinian dialogue.”
