DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Mohamed Nasr, a member of the Hamas political bureau, categorically denied that his Movement had reached an agreement on a truce with the Israeli occupation through Egypt, adding that there would be no calm of any kind with Israel unless it was comprehensive, reciprocal and simultaneous.

Nasr underlined that  Egypt are making efforts to reach a truce formula that takes into account the demands of both parties, but these efforts are obstructed by Israel, pointing out that Egypt had been able to achieve a calm in 2005, but Israel did not respect this calm and continued its aggression since then.

The Hamas leader renewed Hamas's refusal to return to the 2005 agreement concerning the management of crossings which was signed by Mohamed Dahlan because it turns Gaza into a big prison and the Rafah crossing into a gate of this prison locked and opened at will by Israel; besides, the agreement is no longer legally valid.

The Hamas leader doubted Israel's seriousness to reach calm with the Palestinians because Israel does not want the Palestinian people to sign an agreement with it as its equals, but it always wants them to be in a weak position.

In the same context, Suleiman Awwad, the spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, stated on Sunday that Amos Gilad, the delegate of Israeli war ministry, visited Egypt to listen to its assessment of the truce issue and the results of contacts with Hamas in this regard.

Awwad told the Egyptian Middle East News Agency that the Gilad's visit came within the framework of the efforts exerted by Egypt to reach a truce between the Palestinians and the Israelis, to lift the siege and alleviate the Palestinian people's suffering especially in Gaza.