Jordanian expert: Hamas-Israel ceasefire rumors, psychological warfare

Dr. Omar Abdul Hadi told Qodsna that those who follow the Palestinian developments are well aware that the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas had categorically rejected any sort of ties with the Zionist regime which is aimed at building truce.

The expert noted however that the movement is not against truce but only accepts it after certain conditions were met by tyhe Zionist regime, including a halt to its aggressions against the Palestinian people.

The analyst then touched on the remarks of Khalil Abu Laila, a leading Hamas member, who said Monday that the Islamic movement seriously dealt with the Zionist regime's threats to increase military operations in the Gaza Strip and could not accept a ceasefire under the ongoing situation.

"The Zionist enemy continues terrorist attacks on the Palestinian people. It seems that it will not finish. So, on our part, we will not stop. We have to defend our people," Laila, chief of Hamas' foreign relations section, told reporters in Gaza.

"Hamas stances regarding ceasefire is clear and firm," the political expert underlined, quoting the assassinated Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yasin who once asserted that the ceasefire between the Palestinians and the Zionist regime would happen only after the regime withdrew from the 1967 occupied territories and accepted the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with the Beit Ul Moqaddas as its capital.

Responding to a question about the importance of the meeting of donors in Paris to help the Palestinian Authority, the political expert said "we would have welcomed billions of dollars in aid if they were delivered to the Palestinian nation without any blackmail in favor of the Zionist regime."

He denounced any rumores about a ceasefire between Hamas and the Zionist regime as the Fatah movement's efforts to destroy Hamas or reduce its popularity.