GAZA, (PIC)-- Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, announced Wednesday his government's readiness to hold urgent talks with the PA in Ramallah and Egyptian officials in Cairo in order to agree on the management of the Rafah border crossing and to make the necessary arrangements in this regard.

In a televised address and in an interview with Al-Jazeera satellite channel, Haneyya also denied that his government seeks to exclusively run the Rafah terminal and the other Gaza crossings.

The premier stated that what has happened and is happening in the Gaza Strip is a message that the situation in the Gaza Strip reached high rate of tension, saying that the admission of small quantities of fuel is an unacceptable partial step and the Palestinians demands that the siege must be lifted completely.

The premier pointed out that his government has not received any response yet from the Egyptian side regarding its proposal, but he said that the Egyptian leadership promised to study the proposal before replying.

The premier added that his government is ready to make all necessary arrangements with the officials in Egypt in order to follow up the issue of the Rafah crossing for the sake of the common interests of both countries.

In response to the PA accusations that the resistance rockets is the reason for the siege and aggression against Gaza, the premier explained that the firing of rockets is a defensive means coming in the framework of self-defense, pointing out that the Palestinian resistance factions called more than once for a mutual, simultaneous and inclusive calm, but the Israeli occupation every time insists on continuing its killings and incursions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The premier confirmed his rejection of putting conditions for lifting the siege, highlighting that waiving national constants is more painful and harsher than the suffocating siege imposed on the Palestinian people.

For his part, Khaled Mishaal, the head of Hamas political bureau, called for putting the borders between Egypt and Gaza under the supervision of Egyptians and Palestinians only and ignoring any previous agreements detracting from the sovereignty of the two countries.

Mishaal underscored that Egypt did not sign the agreement in 2006 regarding the management of the Rafah crossing; thus, it is not bound by it, adding that Hamas is ready to cooperate with Egypt and the PA leadership to regulate the borders between Egypt and Gaza.

In a statement received by the PIC, Taher Nunu, the spokesman for the caretaker government, stated that the Palestinian people demand that siege be fully broken and the Rafah crossing be normally opened before the movement of citizens and goods from and into the Gaza Strip via the established legal procedures.

Nunu hailed the Egyptian government's role in understanding the essential needs of Gaza citizens and in dealing positively with them especially the position of the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.