Palestinian Hamas Denies Agreement to Sign Peace Accord With Israel in US
Posted on: Sunday, 19 March 2006, 09:00 CST
Text of report headlined "Hamas denies Haniyah agreed to sign peace accord at White House"; published by pro-Hamas Palestinian Information Centre website on 19 March
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Saturday [18 March] denied media reports that MP Isma'il Haniyah, Palestinian National Authority [PNA] prime minister-designate, had agreed to sign a peace agreement with Israel at the White House.
The American CBS news network had quoted Haniyah, one of the prominent Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, as saying that he hoped one day he would be invited to the White House to sign such an accord.
Mushir Al-Masri, an MP on the Hamas list, told the Palestinian Information Centre: "We regret that Palestinian media are carrying such fabricated American news reports, especially in the light of the clear differences between Hamas and the American Administration".
Broadcasting this news only aimed at confusing issues on the Palestinian arena, he said, adding that developments on the ground proved that Hamas would never change its stances, especially as the Palestinian people had elected Hamas on the basis of preserving resistance.
Al-Masri hoped that the Palestinian media would scrutinize such falsified reports and not rush to publishing them. He said that the American network's news report was not true.
Hamas and the American Administration are at loggerheads over peace agreements, the MP pointed out, adding that the latest was over Jericho jail. Israeli forces raided the PNA-run prison and arrested Ahmed Sa'dat, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP] secretary-general, and others despite the agreement between the PNA and Israel stipulating their detention in that jail under Anglo-American supervision.
He said that the basic differences between Hamas and other parliamentary blocs over the formation of the government and the refusal by some of them to join was because of Hamas' refusal to abide by all signed agreements with occupation. Hamas could not accept such a step that led to a decade of suffering for the Palestinian people, Al-Masri concluded.
Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East
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