GAZA (PIC)– The Hamas-led caretaker government stated that it takes seriously press reports published on Friday about Israeli schemes to assassinate Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya and warned of the consequences of such a step.
Assenara newspaper issued in the 1948 occupied Nazareth city revealed that the Israeli mini-government known as the “political-security cabinet” had taken a decision during a meeting last week sanctioning the assassination of Haneyya.
The newspaper quoted sources close to the Israeli decision-making circles as saying that the decision to assassinate Haneyya had been relayed to the concerned security apparatuses to set a date for its execution.
According to the paper Israeli war minister Ehud Barak sanctioned and blessed the plan and called for approving it without any change or reservation.
For his part Dr. Ghazi Hamad the caretaker government’s spokesman stated that Haneyya would take precautionary measures after uncovering the Israeli scheme to assassinate him “which (if implemented) would entail serious repercussions at all levels.”
In the same context Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum confirmed in a statement to the PIC that “this is not the first time such statements are issued or assassination plots are uncovered against leaders of Hamas or other Palestinian resistance factions.”
Barhum warned that there is a program to target and besiege Hamas and its leadership as it achieved successive victories whether at the level of resisting the Israeli occupation or at the level of controlling and restoring internal security.
He added that this scheme aims to eliminate Hamas from the Palestinian arena which refuses to relinquish the national constants and rights and to give way to a foreign agenda to be imposed on the Palestinian people.
He pointed out that despite the security precautions Haneyya will not stop assuming his duties.
