Hamas: We do not negotiate with the occupation
Ahlul Bayt News Agency – Member of Hamas’s political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk strongly denounced president Mahmoud Abbas for accusing his Movement of holding negotiations with the Israeli occupation and attempting to annex an area of the Sinai to the Gaza Strip.
Abbas had told journalists in Cairo, following his meeting on Sunday with Egyptian president Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, that ousted president Mohamed Morsi, when he was still in office in 2012, had offered him 1,000 square kilometers of the Sinai in order to expand the territory of Gaza and liquidate the Palestinian cause.
Abbas also accused Hamas of engaging in direct negotiations with the Israeli occupation.
“We have never had the idea of replacing one inch of Palestine with meters from other land, despite all calumnies and allegations made against us,” Abu Marzouk stated on his Facebook page on Monday.
“We neither negotiate with the [Zionist] entity, nor will we recognize it. We will remain resisting it until its demise,” the Hamas official underlined.
“There is no emirate in Gaza, nor will be there any state without Gaza. Our desired country extends from the sea to the river, and if some people saw it wishes, we will make it a reality,” he added.
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