We will not accept a dwarfed Palestinian state
Palestinian Prime Minister and senior Hamas leader Isma'il Haniyeh urged the PA leadership to stop security coordination with the Israeli occupation in order to help the Arab reconciliation efforts to succeed.
During a celebration honoring the Gazan hajj pilgrims in the Yarmouk playground in Gaza City, Haniyeh affirmed, "for the national dialogue to start properly and in order to provide a healthy atmosphere to make the dialogue successful, the security coordination between the PA leadership and the Israeli occupation must stop because national dialogue and security coordination with Israel do not go together."
In his reaction to the visit of the
"This is the will of the tyrants and the occupiers", Haniyeh said of Bush's vision, affirming, "Bush will go and his power will vanish but the Palestinian legal rights will remain firm".
He, in this concern, reiterated Hamas's vision of accepting a viable Palestinian state on the entire Palestinian lands occupied in 1967 with Beit Ul Moqaddas city as its capital "without forswearing Hamas's strategic vision of not conceding an inch of occupied
"Bush's vision regards Israel as a Jewish state, demolishes the right of millions of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, and calls for [Palestinian] concessions on Beit Ul Moqaddas and other Palestinian national constants in exchange for concentrating on the roadmap plan that calls on the PA to fight and dismantle the Palestinian resistance", Haniyeh explained.
"The Palestinian people inside and outside of
He also rejected the "conditional" US financial assistance to the PA, asserting that broad sectors of Palestinian citizens in Gaza Strip and the West Bank were not benefiting from such aid because "they were disbursed according to the US and Israeli wishes and dictates".
He also urged the Palestinian people to maintain the momentum of steadfastness and challenge against the US-Israeli economic blockade, underscoring, "Israeli and American will could be broken and challenged if the people were determined," citing the brave position of the Gaza pilgrims who insisted to cross into their country through the Rafah crossing and succeeded in doing so as a result of their solid determination and firm unity.
In this regard, Haneyya called on the Arab world and the international community to immediately rescind the unjust economic blockade on the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip, asserting that at the end the Palestinian people's determination and the Palestinian willpower will prevail over the siege.
Haniyeh stipulated the stoppage of security coordination with the Israelis in the
Haniyeh also denied that the Palestinian Authority has been channeling any funds into the Gaza Strip. "None of the billions that arrive in Ramallah is spent on the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, and all claims to the contrary are false," Haniyeh said.
He described the exit of the Gaza Strip Hajj pilgrims through the Rafah crossing as "getting out of the whale's stomach despite those who did not want that to happen."
Haniyeh also thanked all the countries who intervened in securing the pilgrims safe passage through the Rafah crossing. He also thanked the Palestinian community in