Hamas MP Dr Yehia Moussa said that Palestinian Authority President’s decision to arrest leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad(IJ) movements in Al-Khalil (Hebron) city amounts to a blow to the reconciliation agreement which recognizes Palestinians’ right to armed resistance of all types.
The PA president has issued an arrest warrant against members of Hamas and IJ in the West Bank with the purpose of locating the three Israeli soldiers abducted in the West Bank.
In statements to Al-Resalah newspaper on Friday, Moussa said that “Abbas’s attitude contradicts the text of the reconciliation agreement,” stressing that Abbas “has circumvented a number of provisions in the agreement, such as his failure to hold the leadership framework meeting of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation as well as the legislative council.”
Moussa called on Fatah to disavow Abbas’s decisions, which “violated national consensus.”
“Abbas’s statement in which he said that security coordination is ‘sacred’ was not simply a misnomer. It also reflected an approach and vision that contradict national consensus,” he added.
He dismissed the decisions as “major sins” committed by Abbas, called for a clear Palestinian political stance against these acts.
According to statements by Hamas and Fatah leaders, the reconciliation agreement has not opposed armed resistance. On the contrary, it legitimized it as a right for the Palestinian people.