GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas Movement has called on Fatah faction on Thursday to rethink all the "feeble" agreements it had signed with the Israeli occupation authority after the Israeli officials clearly stated they won't be bound with those agreements.
Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman of Hamas's parliamentary bloc in the PLC, reacted to the statements of the new Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, who publicly disavowed the Annapolis understandings, saying, "We (in Hamas) weren’t surprised by Lieberman's statements; however, we consider that they should push Fatah faction to review all the feeble agreements it had signed with the Israeli occupation government without bringing any good to the Palestinian people".
Hamas and the democratically elected PA government have opposed the Annapolis conference from the first moment, and considered it as a "waste of time", and a stab in the back of the Palestinian resistance, he underscored.
"Today, the moment of truth came, and thus, we need a serious and national stand (from Fatah faction) by halting all forms of security coordination with the Israeli occupation, and rejecting all security agreements that tore apart the unity of our Palestinian people", Bardawil emphasized.
On Wednesday, Lieberman underlined that his government won't be bound by the obligations of the Annapolis conference because it wasn’t ratified by any Israeli cabinet.
In an unrelated matter, Egyptian and Palestinian sources revealed that the Egyptian authorities imposed media blackout on the ongoing Palestinian national dialogue in Cairo after Hamas and Fatah leaders refused to talk to journalists upon concluding their bilateral talks.
However, a political leader in Hamas who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity confirmed that Palestinian factions were urged by the Egyptian authorities not to talk to the media on the details of the meetings until something tangible is reached.
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