Hamas urges formation of national consensus govt. for administration of Palestine affairs

The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for formation of a “national consensus” government for administration of Palestinians’ affairs.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas’s spokesman, said such a government has to “include all Palestinian groups,” and administer the affairs of both Gaza and the occupied West Bank..

“We do not accept any discrimination between Gaza and the West Bank, and try towards [enabling] integrated administration of both territories by Palestinian groups,” the official told Qatar’s Al Jazeera Mubasher television network on Monday.

Zuhri also said Hamas would be consulting with the representatives of other Palestinian groups during pending negotiations in the Egyptian capital of Cairo concerning the manner of Gaza’s administration following conclusion of the Israeli regime’s ongoing war against the coastal sliver.

Back in January, the regime came up with a “day after plan” for Gaza that would hand its administration over to unnamed “Palestinian bodies,” while giving Tel Aviv security control over the territory.

Hamas, however, has repeatedly rejected the proposal.

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The Palestinian resistance movement of Islamic Jihad saysthe so-called “day after plan” for the Gaza Strip will only be determined by the resistance.

The movement’s Deputy Political Bureau Chief Khalil al-Hayya asserted this earlier in September in remarks to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman and Egyptian General Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamel.

Hamas rejects “any projects related to the post-aggression phase in the Gaza Strip,” he told the officials, whose countries have been mediating negotiations aimed at potential conclusion of a truce agreement that could bring an end to the October-present war.

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Hamas reiterates its opposition to imposition of “any new demands or conditions” by the Israeli regime for implementation of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

“The management of the strip is a Palestinian internal affair to be agreed upon with a unified Palestinian vision,” Hayya noted.

Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s senior representative in Lebanon, also said recently that Palestinian groups had agreed on formation of a national consensus government during reconciliation talks that were held in Beijing earlier in the year.

The talks were partaken by representatives from Hamas and Fatah, another major Palestinian group, which operates offices in the West Bank.

The groups have been at odds ever since Hamas scored a landslide victory in Palestinian elections in 2006.

The factions agreed in April 2014 to end their grievances and reconcile. The move drew Israeli officials’ ire, and the regime responded by suspending the so-called “peace” talks with the Palestinian Authority, which is led by Fatah.

Following the agreement, the two sides formed a unity government, which Fatah unilaterally dissolved in June 2015, claiming that it was “weak,” and that Hamas would not “allow it to work in Gaza.”

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