GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, has described former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas's talk about Hamas having secret negotiations with Israel as "political hallucination".

The spokesman, in a press release on Friday, denied that his Movement was secretly negotiating Israel over establishment of a Palestinian state with temporary borders.

He said that Abbas's statement revealed that he was out of his wits due to the "severe slaps" which he received from his American and Israeli "friends" after which he realized that he was nothing more than a tool in their hands.

Reiterating that the statement was "baseless", Abu Zuhri recalled that his Movement had repeatedly asserted its rejection of the idea of a state with temporary boundaries.

He underlined that Hamas does not and would not negotiate with Israel, neither publicly nor secretly.

Hamas had earlier issued a statement describing Abbas's statement as "sheer fabrication" and a clear attempt to cover up for his political failure.

"We, in Hamas, affirm our refusal of political negotiations with the Zionist occupation and affirm our rejection of the Palestinian state with temporary boundaries," it added.

The statement asked the "Oslo team" to reconsider its political options and to end the "futile" negotiations with occupation and return to the resistance option.

Abbas told the BBC that Hamas was secretly negotiating with Israel on a Palestinian state with temporary boundaries.